They’re Headed Our Way!
Our oldest daughter Cheyenne and her husband Clark are Bedouin bound!
Our friends Marcel and Karen called us to tell us we were anchored in that same exact bay as some new sailing friends they had just recently made. They told us to scope out the bay and see if “Jack Pine” was anchored anywhere near us. Sure enough they were just two boats away! …
Happy 22nd Birthday to our bosun Chloe who keeps the topside of Bedouin running smoothly. We got home just in time to crank up our printer and sting her a up a birthday banner with photos of her cute little face when she was little. We bought a cake at the store since heating up …
Winding our way home has unfolded a spectacular scene of bridges, tunnels, and viewpoints.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …