Two Curious Souls

We are borrowing these words verbatim from the marketing and sales department of the park. It described the park better than we could and it explains a little of the geology and hydrology of the park. The Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest and largest national park in the Republic of Croatia, famous for its numerous turquoise-colored lakes separated by tufa, or travertine, barriers. Its karst landscape is characterized by specific hydrological traits and exceptional biological diversity, which helped the National Park gain international significance. The specific hydrogeological properties of the Park’s rocks have enabled the retention of water on the dolomite rocks and resulted in the water cutting canyons in the limestone deposits. For that reason, the lake system is divided into the Upper and Lower lakes. Today’s appearance of the lake system is a result of the tufa formation process, which created the barriers. It is an exceptionally complex and sensitive biodynamic proce...

  We’re in a third-floor walkup in Zadar on a Saturday evening. Staring out at the sunset. Jackson Browne on the music machine, and loving life.  I’m looking over at my beautiful wife and wondering how these two people got here. We have reservations for a ferry to Pula tomorrow afternoon arriving at 8:45 PM. We have a reservation for one night at a hotel in Pula. Our next reservation is 9 days away. No hotel reservations, no rental cars, no buses, no ferries, nada. Maybe we should get out of the present and get into something down the road. Have you ever seen such a couple of happy septuagenarians! Susanne’s on the sofa looking at a plan. Our thirty-first plan in ten days. Oops, thirty-second. We know we’ll be in Budapest in 10 days. What fricking fun! Thanks for sharing this journey with us!