man,

all this running, and stolen passports, and broken train engines, and close calls, and almost-missed-trains, and impolite people...

Smells like the Balkans!

I told you before you left - you will see a lot of things that are worse than in the States... Are there any that are better?

Anyway, I can understand now how some people run away from places like that and go all the way to Norman, OK to get their degree... ;-)

To our defense we haven't really tried. The langauge barrier can be hard to get over. When we start trying and failing ithen we will have to come up with some more creative excuses.

Uh ya while Blaine was off having adventures I was having adventures too! Actually, no I wasn't. Untill I met Blaine at the station I just read, studied up on my bulgarian, and wondered the streets of Sofia.

So those european chicks are pickier than you thought? tough luck but reputations can preceed you.

Keep your passports handy and your powder dry.

I'm assuming you got a new passport?

I think I went to that museum too!

hey blaine, its me again, dude...

i was very saddened to read that you had lost your passport (or it got stolen) -- it is the most unpleasant experience one can have when traveling in a foreign country...

hopefully, the american administration will prove itself worthy of its world admiration and you will be able to sleep on monday evening in Bulgaria...

good luck!

if you are stuck in greece for a couple of days go to Meteora -

can't write any more now - i am in a class --- Futures and Options in Stern - i don't understand anything...

Yeah Dale has some videos and some good pics we need to upload

Yeah,

shut up, Dale!! 

So you didn't know that the asians were into beer waaaaay, waaay back. Yep, they invented it, paper and gundpowder all at the same time.

Great blogging. Keep it up. Love the mixture of detail. Tell Dale not to write so much tho.

guess who is back? 

Did i miss you?

wow - a video?!?

moving pictures - yey!!