Peter Carlson quit looking for love and sought adventure instead. He found both

Peter Carlson quit looking for love and sought adventure instead. He found both

Nobody wears shorts in Turkey, and Peter Carlson’s bare legs were a spectacle on his morning runs. “People sit and stare — the most uncomfortable thing ever,” he recollected over the phone recently from England. He’d been in Istanbul in March, when police arrested hundreds of protesters after the country’s authoritarian-curious president imprisoned the city’s mayor. Still, “Turkey felt safe to me,” said Carlson, a longtime resident of Duluth's L…