On the morning of August 19th, we woke up in our car in the middle of a strange field. It had rained all night and was still raining. From Bâlea Lake to Peleș Castle, north and west to Salina Turda and...
Cradled in a valley near the town of Sinaia lies Peleș Castle, the crown jewel of Romania. Originally designed as a royal palace for Romania’s King Carol I and his wife, Queen Elisabeth of Wied, it’s relatively young for a...
Travis and I realized some years back that our rather unorthodox style of roughin’ it when we travel is not everybody’s cup of tea. Though I don’t think we’ve actually completely destroyed any friendships because of trips with friends, we...
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the...
The charming village of Cârțișoara where we spent our first night in Romania lies on the doorstep of Europe’s rugged Carpathian Mountains. Though the Carpathians themselves stretch for nearly 1000 miles across seven European countries, over half of this giant swathe...
They say home is where the heart is. Whether for you that means where your family lives, where you grew up, or wherever you happen to be living at the moment, home is where your warm and fuzzy memories have...
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word Transylvania? Vampires? Pale mist stealthily creeping through haunted forests? Howling wolves on the prowl and turreted castles, darkly brooding under perpetually ominous skies? Whenever I envisioned Transylvania, those...
