This is the day we bade farewell to the lovely city of Tashkent, flying to the western city of Urgench. Flying domestically was…interesting. Airport security was this…. Place everything on the conveyor – suitcase, carry-on, breakfast – and then walk through the detector. Wait…breakfast?? Yep, people put their s...
Continue reading“The day we became millionaires”. Misleading statement……. We exchanged $200 USD and got back 2,180,000 Uzbeki Cym (pronounced “SOOM”). The bills were 100K and 5K notes, so we ended up with a stack of 37 bills. Talk about a fat stack! (We were told you used to have to bring a back-pack to carry your...
Continue readingWe appear to have left the laptop’s power brick at home, so this is sadly, likely the last post this trip. (i.e. unfortunately you won’t be able to follow live, it will be an “after the trip” look. We’ll get the days in as quickly as we can…
Continue readingDay Three…. After about 3-1/2 hours of sleep, we headed back to the airport to retrieve the missing luggage (they don’t deliver here – you have to retrieve it yourself). It was a beautiful morning (70-ish) to drive with the windows down and this was our first glimpse of Tashkent during the day. What a...
Continue readingDay 1 (travel day, flight day, etc……) a very long start. We normally don’t report on our outgoing journey, which is often why we don’t truly have Day 1’s and why this is more a narrative of the day with minimal pictures. But this was a very long journey that was a bit...
Continue readingWe left Plitvice Lakes and headed north today. It was foggy in the park and on the mountaintops, but nothing like yesterday at the waterfalls! The drive down was super windy due to something called bora winds (pronounced “boo-ruh), which can produce winds over 125 mph. Luckily we didn’t experience those winds, but it was...
Continue reading**** Sorry for the delayed post, internet speeds/serviceability in remote national parks is just not terribly conducive to posting/keeping a blog up **** We started early today, as we had a lot of ground to cover to get to the Plitvice Lakes national park. Our first stop was just 17 miles from Split in the...
Continue readingSo where did we leave off yesterday? Oh yes, we mentioned we were going to leave Croatia for Croatia today, and we did. A thin strip of Bosnia and Herzegovina stretches to the Adriatic Sea, bisecting the country of Croatia. To get from Dubrovnik to Split we had to leave Croatia, cross the border into...
Continue readingOur final day in Drubrovnik was a good one! Great weather, great adventure, great company. Our first activity was to take the 1.25 mile walk on the city wall of Dubrovnik, which offers amazing views of sea and land, and also gave us a completely different view of the old city. There were a few...
Continue readingOkay, today is going to be about Dubrovnik, as that is all we did today… Our first full day in the beautiful coastal city of Dubrovnik, Croatia! Did we mention beautiful?! It was another day that started with rain but quickly turned into sunshine and a beautiful 64 degrees. Our morning started with a panoramic...
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