Here’s me with a random bar dog friend I made. Today’s trip is to Hollóháza, a Hungarian town on the border with Slovakia where Papa Rovská has a summer house. It’s a good thirty-minute drive from Košice, and we stop for ice cream along the way. The hills are rolling and covered in trees, andContinue reading “Košice Family Time”
Tag Archives: Summer 2018
The Black Sea
We wake up early, and get to the bus at 7:30 for a long long ride to Batumi. It was supposed to take five and a halfish hours, but our marshrutka driver was the most popular man on the planet and was on the phone for the entire drive. I was worried he would runContinue reading “The Black Sea”
Mountaintops of Mestia
Here’s a little map of the journey so far. J is where we’re headed now. First, we had to spend a night in Kutaisi before going directly to Mestia. Nothing really absurd happened on this day, other than us cooking for the FIRST time this whole trip. Usually, when traveling, hostels have a kitchen soContinue reading “Mountaintops of Mestia”
Sneaky Cows in Kazbegi
It’s about 6 in the evening in Tbilisi, fresh off the train and we have to get to the Russian border by nightfall. Of course, had we arrived at 9 am we would have had an easy journey, but now everything is rather last minute. We look around the hectic marshrutka station for someone goingContinue reading “Sneaky Cows in Kazbegi”
Fifty Shades of Sweat
It’s eight o’clock at night, and we’re boarding a train to Baku. The train is a literal sauna, having been left in the sun all day long. We wait outside and add another addition to the slav squat catalog. People are already taking their shirts off and getting drunk all over the train, as it mustContinue reading “Fifty Shades of Sweat”
The Weekend Rambler 