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Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia (phew!)

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Playing Plovdiv.

Date: 07/23/2008
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The old man stealing the show. Drew tries to help out.

Date: 07/23/2008
Views: 774
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Everyone joins in!

Date: 07/23/2008
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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
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The morning after our party at the railroad employee break house.

Date: 07/24/2008
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Planting something or other by hand.

Date: 07/24/2008
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A cold, wet lunch.

Date: 07/24/2008
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The weather requires a hood.

Date: 07/24/2008
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Things dry out and we're back under way.

Date: 07/25/2008
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Riding on a silvery road after a rain.

Date: 07/25/2008
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We're surrounding by children, perhaps for the first time since India.

Date: 07/26/2008
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Biking into Serbia.

Date: 07/28/2008
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The nice people at the bike store in Skopje, Macedonia.

Date: 07/30/2008
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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: 757
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Another old bridge.

Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 801
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Communist artwork.

Date: 07/30/2008
Views: 780
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A better shot.

Date: 07/30/2008
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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
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Going into Kosovo. You don't see a sign like this every day.

Date: 07/31/2008
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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: 853
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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: 1858
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Serbian house, old-school.

Date: 07/31/2008
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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
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Great Serbian countryside. They really intersperse fields and forests.

Date: 08/02/2008
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A flowery house.

Date: 08/02/2008
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Residents of said flowery house after they invited me in for a drink.

Date: 08/02/2008
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They raise hogs for a living.

Date: 08/02/2008
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The guy next door had goats.

Date: 08/02/2008
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Rushing to grab me another huge bag of fruit.

Date: 08/02/2008
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An old woman who wanted me to take her picture.

Date: 08/02/2008
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Good lighting and a mud-brick building.

Date: 08/02/2008
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What the heck am I going to do with all this dang fruit?

Date: 08/02/2008
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New deer crossing sign.

Date: 08/03/2008
Views: 776
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These guys, residents of Gornja Sabanta, brought me breakfast after I camped in the school yard.

Date: 08/03/2008
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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
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Another friend from G. Sabanta.

Date: 08/03/2008
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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
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The Moose leans on Dostoevsky.

Date: 08/04/2008
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License and registration?

Date: 08/04/2008
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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
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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
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Look at the abbreviation for dollars...very appropriate.

Date: 08/07/2008
Views: 881
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FBR and Lela, our host in Belgrade that we knew from Beijing.

Date: 08/07/2008
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Overlooking the "White City".

Date: 08/07/2008
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Statue in Belgrade park.

Date: 08/07/2008
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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: 854
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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: 905
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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: 938
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