Bedouin Sweet Bedouin
After a fun roadtrip, it feels good to be back home.
Spectacular Drive Home
Winding our way home has unfolded a spectacular scene of bridges, tunnels, and viewpoints.
A Tale of Two Bridges
We had a couple Bosnian Bridges on our road trip radar. Both of them were constructed in the 1500’s and are long standing testaments to the excellence of Ottoman craftsmanship. The first was Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge that spans the Drina river in Visegrad. It was built in the 1500’s which boggles the American …
High Altitude Haystacks
When I was a little girl, I used to have a well-worn nursery rhyme book. I loved all the rhymes in it– they were a staple of my, well–what I thought was– my tranquil childhood. Yet, as an adult, clearly I didn’t get the jest of these children’s mostly morbid rhymes–like the cradle falling with …
Mokra Gora
We headed to Mokra Gora which is nestled in the Zlatibor mountains near the Šargan Eight Railway. This took us back to our Pacific Northwest roots. While we were there we visited a wooden village nearly called Drvengrad, meaning “wooden town” created by the Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica which hosts a film festival. Emir had …
Serbian Sunflowers
We’ve passed fields and fields of Sunflowers along our way to Mokra Gora. Chloe loved all the sunflowers. We’ve adapted to not understanding the road signs so much so that we are starting to understand them now.
Golubac Fortress
East of Belgrade along the Danube River sit the stunning Golubac Fortress. We headed east for just under two hours on a side trip just to see it, and it didn’t disappoint. Serbia has hundreds of crumbling fortresses but about thirty that have been preserved and this one, sunning itself along the Danube, is a …
Chloe’s Super-Sized Serbia
Our bosun Chloe has a highly tuned American palate. Her radar spotted this rather posh looking McDonalds as we drove out of town and decided we needed some fries and a coke. A perfectly American road snack for our trip east to the Medevil Golubac Fortress.
Beautiful Belgrade
We made it to Serbia’s capital city. Our Airbnb is in the center of town which makes for the perfect place to walk around and enjoy the city. We hired some scooters and a guide and set out to discover Belgrade. This incredible city where Sava and Danube rivers converge, is one of the …
Scenes on the Road
Serbian Traffic jam. An Endless array of tunnels; posh tunnels, hand-dug tunnels, and tunnels by the dozens… A little Americana…in Serbia