I can dig. See? I got a shovel.

Sarajevo War Poster c. 1993

Getting close...

I've got a few meetings scheduled in Serbia, Sarajevo, and Croatia.  Hoping to have a few more lined up by the time i depart for the mythic realm that was Yugoslavia.

This long weekend break from school, I'll make a trial of packing things for the trip to see where I'm at as far as space and weight goes, continuing reading, set up my profile and mission statement on Couch Surfing, and sketch a geographic itinerary.  I've made some orders for books and a couple of items I still need for the Travelogue, but  other than that, I need only to stay focused on the remaining weeks of school and the three papers and two exams left this semester.  Then three weeks of nothing but work and antici ... pation.  :)

50 days from now I'll be somewhere over the Atlantic en route to Heathrow before the immediate hop from there to Budapest.

Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know...


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Contact. 3... 2... 1...

So I finally got off my electronic missives to a couple of notable persons in the Balkans.  Directors Danis Tanović and Emir Kusturica.  Incidentally, both are Sarajevans, with one having returned to Sarajevo after the wars and the other relocating in (apparently) more than merely geography from where he was before the wars.

I would feel honored and privalaged if I can even have a correspondence with them, let alone getting to meet and speak with them first-hand.

52 days until I hop on that big ol' jet airliner that will carry me to Far Away.

Excitement is starting to simmer at a mid-boil.  :)


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