A Thousand Words
I have been fortunate to visit some beautiful places in my travels, but it’s always the personal encounters that are my favorite memories.
I have been fortunate to visit some beautiful places in my travels, but it’s always the personal encounters that are my favorite memories.
Scenes from Yaremche: Gateway to the Carpathians.
When traveling in a land with a very wide language barrier, even the smallest tasks become an adventure. Buying tickets, ordering food or obtaining train schedules takes twice as long and is infinitely more fun when everyone has only 3 words in common.
After almost a week in Ukraine, we were feeling pretty confident, cocky, even. After all, we’d just successfully taken 4 or 5 different buses through the Carpathians, and we could even read town names in the Ukrainian alphabet. Look at us go!
Tonight at 9 pm we’ll be hopping on a plane to Warsaw, Poland for a 2-week adventure through the Carpathian Mountains.