Sometimes life is better left unplanned...

 

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! 



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