Lately I've been chatting with some of my travel buddies, and new friends, about past travels and decided it's time to pull out some of those fabulous experiences over here to the travelogues.
During my senior year of undergrad, I spent a semester in New Zealand, which was amazing and you'll read more about that here later, but the experience kicked off a string of fantastic travel adventures and I hope to have many more to come!
This one I wrote as I was prepping to jet off to Slovenia in 2009. It was originally posted on my old travel blog on April 15, 2009.
Why Slovenia?
Q: Where are you going in May?
Me: Slovenia.
Q: Why?
Me: Because.
I probably have answered just like that before, but the real thought process went more like this: I was in Peru having dinner with a British friend I had met in Huaraz. I was telling him about my plan to visit at least one country a year and I needed to pick the next one. He recommended Eastern Europe and Slovenia in particular.
At the time I had ruled out Europe for cost, but he pointed out that many of the former Soviet or Yugoslavian countries were cheaper and just as great. And he was right.
I Googled Slovenia (anyone who knows me knows I Google everything -- seriously, everything) and flipped through a Lonely Planet book and I was hooked.
New conversations go like this:
Q: What's in Slovenia?
Me: Castles, architecture, mountains, culture, history.
Q: Where is it?
Me: Borders Croatia, Hungary, Austria and Italy.
So I don't really know what I'll find and it will certainly be a shift after the two-weeks I spent winging it through Peru last summer. But, I know that 'dober' means good in Slovene and that the weather should be great in May, and I'll go from there!
During my senior year of undergrad, I spent a semester in New Zealand, which was amazing and you'll read more about that here later, but the experience kicked off a string of fantastic travel adventures and I hope to have many more to come!
This one I wrote as I was prepping to jet off to Slovenia in 2009. It was originally posted on my old travel blog on April 15, 2009.
Why Slovenia?
Q: Where are you going in May?
Me: Slovenia.
Q: Why?
Me: Because.
I probably have answered just like that before, but the real thought process went more like this: I was in Peru having dinner with a British friend I had met in Huaraz. I was telling him about my plan to visit at least one country a year and I needed to pick the next one. He recommended Eastern Europe and Slovenia in particular.
At the time I had ruled out Europe for cost, but he pointed out that many of the former Soviet or Yugoslavian countries were cheaper and just as great. And he was right.
I Googled Slovenia (anyone who knows me knows I Google everything -- seriously, everything) and flipped through a Lonely Planet book and I was hooked.
New conversations go like this:
Q: What's in Slovenia?
Me: Castles, architecture, mountains, culture, history.
Q: Where is it?
Me: Borders Croatia, Hungary, Austria and Italy.
So I don't really know what I'll find and it will certainly be a shift after the two-weeks I spent winging it through Peru last summer. But, I know that 'dober' means good in Slovene and that the weather should be great in May, and I'll go from there!
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