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today was another driving day, so all you get are ‘through the windshield’ and ‘out the window’ point and miss camera photos. not my best work, but they are good enough to give you a feel of our day. we left early this morning from Ohrid and traveled north through Macedonia and entered in toContinue reading “Kosovo”

we spent the better part of today wandering through the hilly, old part of Ohrid. and boy did it not disappoint. set on Lake Ohrid, this town has really retained an old town feel without selling out to high rise condos or hotels like other towns we have been through have. while there were someContinue reading “Ohrid, Macedonia”

thought i’d put up a short point and miss camera picture journal of the hightlights (and lowlights) of the trip so far: 1. (above) – krapfest 2. powering up for the 9.5 hour flight at o’hare 3. GPS screen driving through the mountains 4. out the window snapshot driving down a mountain 5. sweet resortContinue reading “the abridged version thus far”

budva this morning was wonderful. we slept in a bit late, but were up and out for a stroll around 9am. after about an hour walking around our hostel in the Old Town part of the city (which was an old stoned fortified village), we headed out down the coast of Montenegro towards Ulcinj. UlcinjContinue reading “Macedonia by way of Albania”

this me expressing my excitement about not being at work, being off those four flights, not getting a crap rental car, and being in a strange new place. getting here went pretty well, and our flights went alright except for the last – we landed in Vienna around 11:45am after our flight was late leavingContinue reading “we’re here. and it’s beautiful.”