Linds and Ryan Travel

                                         BOSNIA- Mostar and Sarajevo Let’s just start here. Bosnia, stole our hearts. One of our favorite countries we have been to so far.  We spent just 6 days there, but could have stayed longer. Its history is intense, it’s landscape is complex and beautiful, and it’s culture is an intriguing blend. For a country that was in a brutal war that ended in 1995 to see where it has come from and the progress it is making and has made is fascinating. The Bosnian people were devastated, held captive in their cities, shelled, and killed. Thousands of men, women, and children died. It is not to say that other countries have not suffered a great deal in wars, or that people are not suffering now around the world, but because we spent a bit of time in Bosnia we can understand more clearly what happened in that part ...

Croatia: After squeezing out one more evening (and one liter of beer) at Oktoberfest we boarded our sleeper train at 11pm. We got super lucky on two fronts: 1.) The SLEEPER CAR tickets were only $20 more than the dreaded FlixBus and 2.) We had the entire sleeper car to ourselves. Another perk of European trains, the 2nd class sleeper cars have a door that locks--we were able to lock our car while we slept and get some great sleep. I dreamed about the relative luxury we enjoyed compared to buses :). Well rested, we arrived in Zagreb, Croatia the next morning. The road trip begins! We took a small “urban hike” to the car rental agency from the train station and got to see most of downtown Zagreb. Ok, in retrospect we probably should have taken the train, but all worked out. We threw our bags in the car and before we knew it we were off! Plitvice Lakes here we come! The national park was breathtakingly beautiful, we walked on wooden platforms of varying elevations that took us we...