Getting from Plovdiv, Bulgaria to Skopje, Macedonia was not as easy as we thought it would be. There are no flights between the two cities. Taking the bus would have involve changing buses one or two times and taken up a full day. Taking the train would have involve four …
Plovdiv, Bulgaria was first founded around 6000 BC and is said to be the oldest city in Europe. First settled on one of the hill tops named Nebet Tepe, the city grew from there. Exploring the remains of the fortress at Nebet Tepe was one of the first things we …
We were supposed to have a 10 day vacation. Four of those days we planned to explore Barcelona, Spain. This was the first real vacation / work time off we were going to take since we went to the Dominican Republic back in 2010, nine years ago! Of course, when …
>> Update as of February 2023 at end of post! << This is not like my normal posts here. This is a story. And while many stories are non-fiction, or based on fiction, this story is different. This story is true. Day 1 The day started off like most December …
The summer is over and I haven’t written a single post. I took a break on purpose though. We have been so busy working I didn’t have much time. Our web development work has really picked up. We have been, and still are, busy with our regular clients and even …
We have been adjusting back to life in the US. Everything is so loud, fast paced and we are bombarded with commercials constantly it seems. Everything is expensive, even basic groceries. I feel slightly stressed everyday. We are also really, really busy. Several web contracts we had been negotiating came …
The day eventually came when we decided to go back to the United States. We had been planning to go to back to Greece first, Athens, or maybe Thessaloniki, this time. However, we started to feel like we were traveling just for the sake of traveling. We needed to take a …
Our time in Romania was coming to an end and there were a few things we really wanted to see before we leave. We originally planned to rent a car and spend a couple days exploring the mountains, but that didn’t happen. Instead, we decided on a day trip from …
It snowed off and on first week we were in Bucharest. Once the snow finally melted we had an ice storm. This basically trapped me in the apartment. I tried to go out one day but there was a sheet of ice all around our building. I wasn’t going to …
