Zbogom

No, not a made up word. Zbogom is Croatian for goodbye. Another Croatian word that is handy to know is Molim - please, and of course hvala van ti - thank you. Why the sudden interest in Croatian? you ask. Well, by the time you read this, we will likely be heading to LAX for our flight to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Dubrovnik, Croatia (Internet photo)

We have spent the past 10 months booking flights, arranging lodging, paying for tours, finding a house/dog sitter, and finding someone to look after my two horses. Today, we leave for 16 days of adventure. Most of our time will be spent in and around Dubrovnik, but we will cross the border to both Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dubrovnik is at the very southern point of Croatia.

We've traveled a fair amount in the past 30 years, but this will be the farthest east we've been. I've been to Europe at least five times already, but until now, Italy was the farthest east we had traveled. We've been to Canada twice (east and west coasts), Central America (Costa Rica, Belize, & Guatemala), South America (Peru), Hawaii (twice), and as a foreign exchange student, I lived in the Canary Islands for a year. The Canary Islands lie just miles off the coast of Western Sahara in Africa.

There we are with a long way to go!

It has been a few years since we left the U.S. - lockdowns due to COVID prevented any kind of real travel, so we're very excited about this trip. If we're friends on Facebook, I'll be posting photos and updates. For everyone else, I'll be back in a couple of weeks.

See you soon!