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Three Hour Tour

Three Hour Tour

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Actually, it was more like five hours, which is unfortunate, because the sign we read stated that the waterfall was an easy 45 minute hike in one direction. We figured we could pick it off in a couple of hours leaving us plenty of time to rest our legs. The trail we planned to follow […]

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

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Though we’re enamored with our guesthouse for the night, we’ve got a problem. We cannot get the wifi to work for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Given that we’re stopped partly so that we can get some work done, we simply cannot stay.   Sadly, after a blissful night of real […]

Carpathians at Last

Carpathians at Last

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Hitting the road at 5:50, we laughed a bit about the ridiculousness of the night we’d just spent. I had so many bug bites I felt like I had hives, but at least we were outside breathing fresh cool air, moving too fast for any bugs to catch us. The bad news is that with […]

Den of Mosquitoes

Den of Mosquitoes

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Though our hotel was pretty run down, our first glance at it had seemed livable. We’re really not that picky about where we stay, just so long as the room is clean, there is a place for bikes, and it has internet access. As the day wore on however, things started going downhill fast. The […]

Eagle Eyes

Eagle Eyes

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I woke with the sun and happily noted a handful of interesting emails from home sitting in my inbox. Already feeling cheerful, I got Ben up and we began packing up from our lovely campsite filled with German and Dutch retirees. Have I mentioned how much I love organized camping? As we cleaned and repaired […]

Bridges, Borders, Bucharest

Bridges, Borders, Bucharest

Our usual attempts at getting out the door early were only somewhat successful. Though a wet tent didn’t slow us down, the hotel’s self serve breakfast certainly did (we really struggled to figure out what exactly we were supposed to eat) but we finally got out the door and headed for the bridge across the […]