Many of the cities we have visted are starting to look and feel like cities in the West, with their own special characteristics, of course. But one can see and feel the effort - the cheesy frat boy party music playing from all of the “clubs” endlessly repeating the same five songs being one of […]

We ended up spending a week in Budapest and a night in Eger. I’m having to shift my focus now that we are firmly in the west - it’s harder to find things to write about because the differences between home and Europe are much more subtle than the differences between home and places like […]

Bulgaria (be sure you see both pages) and Romania (uploading now so keep checking) albums are online.

We just arrived in Budapest, Hungary via a night train from Sighisoara, Romania. They actually have Windows XP and fast connections in this country which means I can get some pictures online before long. More later.

Today is August 15, which means we left America six months ago. At this point, it looks like we’ve got about another two or [barely] three more to go.