They've got trees and mooses and sled dogs, lots of lumber and lumber jacks and logs! Our adventure in the maple-leaf state began with a grizzly bear soon after the border. Aaron could have leaned out the passenger window and pet it, but he didn't. We got to Calgary and had some Canadian-Thai fusion cuisine: …
Glacier might be my new favorite US national park. It is green and gorgeous and filled with turquoise glacier lakes. It did rain for 30 consecutive hours, but I don't hold it against them. The rain exacerbated all of our gear failures: rainfly is no longer water proof, Aaron's mattress has developed a tumor, car's …
Land of geysers and bison--we saw them all. A white wolf even dashed in front of our car! Our second morning some departing campers gave us their bearspray and we are now prepared for a faceoff. Aaron has requested that we don't keep it in the tent because I am easily startled and trigger-happy. We …
We are back in America and it is good to be home. The signs are in English, and we are no longer beholden to crazy bus schedules because we have a car. We spent a week visiting with family then preparing for our camping trip. We multitasked that week and had a bout of bronchitis …
Population 160,000 and the second biggest city in Croatia, Split is a fantastic city. The old town was built by Roman Emperor Diocletian in the fourth century as his retirement palace, and over the centuries houses and shops have been built into the palace complex. Krka National Park and the colorful waterfalls make a good …
Beep beep beep beep beep That pretty much summarizes our 12-hour bus ride from Sarajevo to Zadar. This wasn't honking, it was an internal sensor that made ear-splitting noises intermittently the entire drive. I looked for a pattern to make sense of it so that the mystery would not drive me crazier than the noise. …
We took the train from Mostar to Sarajevo. The tracks run along the river with steep green gorges on both sides. It rained pretty hard for most of the journey, but the last twenty minutes the sun came out and we had lovely views. Sarajevo was under siege from 1992-1996. Many buildings are still bombed …
We bring the rain. We have been rained on in 44 separate countries this trip. That is a 90% success rate of getting rained on, but we won't melt. The forecast for the next ten days is all rain within a 200 mile radius. Thankfully we had 1.5 days of sunshine in Mostar, and that …
I read 4,500 pages of local history before arriving. Unfortunately the historian developed other hobbies and didn't finish the narrative, but HBO took up the slack and filmed the documentary Game of Thrones here. It is really fun to walk around and see places of such historical significance. They had great hairstyles back then, and …
As we approached the Albanian border, I saw this sign at the guard kiosk, "15 euro per dite per ne mal të zi." I ran it through Google translate and got "15 euro per day for blackmail." There is an official price for that? I then realized that "ne" should have been "në" and the …
We Won't Melt 