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Playing Plovdiv.
Date: 07/23/2008
Views: 702
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The old man stealing the show. Drew tries to help out.
Date: 07/23/2008
Views: 719
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Everyone joins in!
Date: 07/23/2008
Views: 702
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Pete just after we are told we can stay in the train employee house, but before Mitko bought us a bunch of beer.
Date: 07/24/2008
Views: 679
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The morning after our party at the railroad employee break house.
Date: 07/24/2008
Views: 740
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Planting something or other by hand.
Date: 07/24/2008
Views: 703
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A cold, wet lunch.
Date: 07/24/2008
Views: 708
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The weather requires a hood.
Date: 07/24/2008
Views: 732
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Things dry out and we're back under way.
Date: 07/25/2008
Views: 759
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Riding on a silvery road after a rain.
Date: 07/25/2008
Views: 751
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We're surrounding by children, perhaps for the first time since India.
Date: 07/26/2008
Views: 754
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Biking into Serbia.
Date: 07/28/2008
Views: 728
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The nice people at the bike store in Skopje, Macedonia.
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 727
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Bennie, an ethnic Albanian and bike mechanic in Skopje. His father was the first bike mechanic in Skopje. He helped me find a bike box for Netzy and take the bike apart.
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 704
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Another old bridge.
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 730
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Communist artwork.
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 720
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A better shot.
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 734
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The famous Skopje post office and a horse grazing in the back of the building. Can you buy horse locks?
Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 707
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Going into Kosovo. You don't see a sign like this every day.
Date: 07/31/2008
Views: 721
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Advertisement for U.S. soldier-hosted radio shows abound everywhere in Kosovo. I saw columns of hummers and tried to wave, but they zipped by me too quickly to notice.
Date: 07/31/2008
Views: 799
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These two guys waved me down when it was almost dusk to talk. They smiled and struggled for the English words, but made themselves very well understood. It was a great cap on a day full of positive interactions.
Date: 07/31/2008
Views: 1792
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Serbian house, old-school.
Date: 07/31/2008
Views: 732
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A hill I climbed while looking for the rest of the group in Serbia. Tough but beautiful.
Date: 07/31/2008
Views: 768
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Great Serbian countryside. They really intersperse fields and forests.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 720
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A flowery house.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 742
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Residents of said flowery house after they invited me in for a drink.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 716
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They raise hogs for a living.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 736
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The guy next door had goats.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 743
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Rushing to grab me another huge bag of fruit.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 708
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An old woman who wanted me to take her picture.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 729
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Good lighting and a mud-brick building.
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 745
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What the heck am I going to do with all this dang fruit?
Date: 08/02/2008
Views: 704
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New deer crossing sign.
Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 723
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These guys, residents of Gornja Sabanta, brought me breakfast after I camped in the school yard.
Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 741
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Marco, a high school student from G. Sabanta. We chatted at length, despite his maintaining the silence of a Norwegian Bachelor Farmer.
Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 736
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Another friend from G. Sabanta.
Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 729
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I asked this woman where an internet cafe was. Follow me! she signaled and brought me right into her house. She sat me down at her sons desk and pointed to the laptop-you figure it out, I don't know how to work it, she indicated. Then she brought me fr
Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 780
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The Moose leans on Dostoevsky.
Date: 08/04/2008
Views: 779
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License and registration?
Date: 08/04/2008
Views: 736
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FBR with some gypsies. Pete talked with the woman at length in German. Now he can't speak Chinese without German slipping in!
Date: 08/05/2008
Views: 794
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Jim and Drew, after conquering Nakia's impossible-to-change back tire. We finally had to cut it off.
Date: 08/05/2008
Views: 752
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Look at the abbreviation for dollars...very appropriate.
Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 829
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FBR and Lela, our host in Belgrade that we knew from Beijing.
Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 797
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Overlooking the "White City".
Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 762
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Statue in Belgrade park.
Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 783
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Nakia and her reams of documents, ready to go in and apply for the dreaded Schengen visa for Western Europe.
Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 784
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Me and Lela's uncle and his friend. Her uncle own the internet cafe from where I type this. He and his friend poured much beer and prucetto down my throat yesterday. Hooray for Serbian hospitality!
Date: 08/08/2008
Views: 842
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Eating with Lela and her mom. We're all staying at her Mom's place, and she always cooks for us and never lets us help clean up. Eegads...
Date: 08/08/2008
Views: 880
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