On The Write Path

Destination Bucharest.

A comment to Stik:

When I wanted to visit Romania it was $500 less to fly to Munich... so I did... but it was Oktober and I stay away from beerfests so I got on a bus and spent my first night in Prague figuring I'd get to see Munich on the way back. I saw a friend in Prague because I was worried about his depression and ate Chinese at his family restaurant. The next day he wanted to eat at McDonalds because he ate Chinese every day. Of course Prague isn't a suburb of Bucharest so I visited Bratislava, BudaPest, and Belgrade (just because it's in between, broke up the trip and it's not a tourist hot spot). I still wasn't in Romania... albeit next door. I continued to Timisoira, Sibiu, Sigisoira and Brasov before finally arriving in Bucharest. I specifically wanted to visit Raluca who I met at WDC. She's an architect and she gave me a grand tour of the outside museum of buildings gathered from all corners of her country. As a student she had spent many hours studying there. Then back to Munich where I watched surfers on the river and flew home.

So much of that trip was doing whatever wherever whenever I could and seeing, smelling, listening, touching and tasting along the way. I never got back to any of those places except Belgrade. I've gone back twice.

For me the purpose was seeing friends, but the journey was to be savored e.v.e.r.y day.

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