It is amazing just how coordinated I am. I had no idea how well I packed. I have this lovely plum color shirt that matches just the shade of the circles under my eyes.Little tid bit: Croatia is at the same latitude as Portland OR but it is much warmer.We drove from Split to Dubrovnik yesterday. It was like a 4 hour drive all along the coast most of the way. We got a ticket for driving without our lights on which is unfortunate. The police man stands on the side o...

So the train seems to be my nemesis... In Slovenia We were smart this time and bought tickets the night before so we would not be pressed for time at 6:20 am. We got to the train station with 15 min before our departure. We ask a conductor which platform and he says 3. We are sitting waiting for our train and this Slovenian girl comes and talks to us saying she is going to go take her driver license test. We were like oh well, we are going to Croatia and she says...

If you notice I had two blog entries In Budapest on the same day. They are different blogs just one early in the am the other late late at night. Well, we waited for the bus for a long time last night. The bus that was supposed to come didn't and we had to wait an extra hour. We caught the train to Ljubljana from bled and the trip took about one and a half hours. We walked to our hostel: http://www.souhostel.com/It is this really old jail that they converted the ...

Dober dan (hello) from Lake Bled in Slovenia, (There was no picture to choose from Slovenia but the picture above looks quite like the country of Austria.) We rode the train yesterday, we barely got our tickets in Budapest and aboard the train in time. It is an all day trip with 3 transfers. It was the best train ride I have ever had and pleasant compared to the train from Prague to Budapest. The train was very nice with fold down seats and so we read and watche...

Budapest is better after sleep. First I have to apologize for all the typos but I never reread my posts because it costs money to be on the Internet and there is no spell check and I am usually doing this late at night. Okay so I already posted today but I had to write it all down before I forgot it. Sorry Daryl and Brian I have not found any of your long lost relatives. So Katie and I had a problem we had that was totally frustrating. Katie and I were trying to...