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Bulgaria.
Date: 07/05/2008
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Netzy getting by with a little help from her friends.
Date: 07/05/2008
Views: 908
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Classic communist smoke-spewing factories are still running in some places.
Date: 07/06/2008
Views: 886
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Deserted factories and warehouses lie around everywhere.
Date: 07/07/2008
Views: 880
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Camping. The Mafia didn't find us.
Date: 07/07/2008
Views: 871
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Almost every home has a pergola with grape vines.
Date: 07/07/2008
Views: 884
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A bike shop and the friendly owner. We found it just as we broke pedals.
Date: 07/11/2008
Views: 899
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Camping by the diarrhea river.
Date: 07/11/2008
Views: 846
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A hotel in the mountains.
Date: 07/12/2008
Views: 859
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Mountain houses.
Date: 07/12/2008
Views: 855
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Mountains...tough riding, but beautiful views.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 867
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Filling up at a spring.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 848
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Butterfly, somewhere in there.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 900
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Another mountain view.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 865
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Flowers.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 895
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Flowers with a building.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 847
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Camping.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 834
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A crazy foot bridge.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 827
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Jay and the technicolor dream caterpillar.
Date: 07/13/2008
Views: 936
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All together, the Durfey's and Jay.
Date: 07/14/2008
Views: 938
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Note the roof, if you can.
Date: 07/14/2008
Views: 791
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Another interesting roof.
Date: 07/14/2008
Views: 816
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The southern mountains of Bulgaria contain many Muslim villages.
Date: 07/14/2008
Views: 815
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Old Muslim grave yard.
Date: 07/15/2008
Views: 898
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Another shot of the graveyard.
Date: 07/15/2008
Views: 864
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Whoops.
Date: 07/15/2008
Views: 870
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Jay looks at a horse-drawn wagon passing. The sign didn't lie. Horse drawn vehicles abound on Bulgaria's roads.
Date: 07/15/2008
Views: 892
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Many shepherds and farmers make temporary homes out of abandoned mobile military command posts.
Date: 07/16/2008
Views: 882
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Another hill.
Date: 07/16/2008
Views: 913
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Touring a winery. The owner went to a lot of trouble to fix my bike tire, later he called a cab for Netzy when the lightening at our campsite nearby got to be too much for her. The Germans working there who acted as our translators may join us later in
Date: 07/16/2008
Views: 1001
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Autumn and Jay's bikes, the Sprints, relaxing before another day of riding.
Date: 07/16/2008
Views: 872
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A Bulgarian shop owner who took an interest in the trip.
Date: 07/17/2008
Views: 968
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Back in Greece...lovely houses.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 938
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Autumn posing near a Greek yard.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 937
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The man in charge of the gas station where we stopped gave us a bunch of tomatoes from his huge garden.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 841
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Flowers.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 802
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We forded this river 4 times. On the last both Netzy and I went tip canoe...no harm done, however.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 877
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Drying out the stuff after going tip-canoe.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 867
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On a bridge built by the Ottoman empire in the 1500s.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 860
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Another bridge...they're all over Edirne.
Date: 07/18/2008
Views: 841
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FBR and the Durfeys and Jay, together at last. Unfortunately only for 1 day, however.
Date: 07/19/2008
Views: 824
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FBR and Netzy biking back into Bulgaria. Trucks lined up for miles outside the border crossing.
Date: 07/20/2008
Views: 827
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Interesting sign.
Date: 07/20/2008
Views: 870
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Storks.
Date: 07/21/2008
Views: 852
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Storks.
Date: 07/21/2008
Views: 849
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You guessed it...storks.
Date: 07/21/2008
Views: 807
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Andrew and his special friend.
Date: 07/22/2008
Views: 837
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Male FBR and the Bulgarian poet who interviewed us over lunch.
Date: 07/22/2008
Views: 794
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