Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Two Donkeys and a Moped

Two Donkeys and a Moped

A bus with spare jet engines strapped to the top, another with a living room set of furniture, another with a live goat, mountains spiking skyward from the water’s edge, the boat heading directly into a wall of rock, a wedding party, and a dozen calves. Highlights from our 2-hour ferry ride in northern Albania last week.
We had left Tirana at 5:30 am for a three-hour drive to the ferry launch

Saturday, September 12, 2009

maggots and chicken

The guy at the closest market totals up our purchases with a pencil and paper, the nearest restaurant is called, "The Chicken Shack," and right across the road nearest major road is a huge park that is stuffed with every manner of walker or jogger from the national soccer team to elderly ladies with canes walking around a track;