Beautiful! Mykonos, Greece

I can see why this is one of the highest rated islands in the world. It is spectacular! Everything you see on TV about the white wash houses, blue shutters, narrow streets is encapsulated here. We picked a beautiful time to visit too because it was hot but not too hot. During the summer they say there are so many tourists you can barely walk down the streets. We stayed right in the city center above an ice cream/crapes shop. Yum yum! They gave us all our food for either free or 50% off. It made us remember our former vacations, when we would go to a tropical place, lay on the beach all day and eat ten meals a day. Adam went for a walk while I was laying on the beach and he came back with a baggie full of beer and called it "the catch of the day".

last country in Europe- Athens, Greece

I am convinced that being a couchsurfing host is one of the kindest things you can do in life.  We have met so many incredible people on this trip. When you are visiting a new place and you don't speak the language and you don't know where you are going, it means so much to be welcomed into someone's home. We are staying with such a nice couple, who have also agreed to babysit our 5000 pounds of luggage while we travel to the Greek islands for a few days. We have been basically living out of the car and we just cleared it out so that we could sell it. At sunset on our first night in Athens, we found ourselves sitting on the hood of a "British Racing green" '94 Rover, named Cloe, in the parking lot of a hospital, waiting for someone to buy it for 200 euros. Definitely, NOT my proudest moment. Lol. The next day we had a nice visit to Athens to see parliament, the gardens, the original location for the Olympic Games, the acropolis, and all the touristy sections of the city. We have been eating pitas gyros for breakfast lunch and dinner because they are so good and only cost 2 euros! Now we are on a ferry to Mykonos island, which is supposed to be so beautiful. The ferry is packed and there is not 1 person under the age of 70. Haha

Croatia, Montenegro, and Albania

I knew it was going to be a very strange day at 6:30am this morning. It was still dark outside as we were leaving Croatia and we were bumping the base of our Rover to "Maria, Maria". haha. We are so wierd. We left Croatia, drove through Montenegro, Albania and ended in Greece. People had warned us that Albania is dangerous and has crazy roads but nothing could have prepared me for our experience. Most streets don't have road signs, you finally figure out where to go and start picking up speed and the road just ends and becomes gravel, there are huge potholes everywhere, missing grates in the middle of the road and oh, my personal favorite, half of the roads arent paved so people just drive on whatever side of the road they want. We were driving on a 4 lane road, 2 lanes in each direction, but the other side must have been torn up because with no warning people switch to our lane driving towards us! People have fires everywhere, sheep in the road, mule drawn carriages, people selling dead rabbits under freeway passes. It was truly quite an experience! The coast was absolutely beautiful! We had a great day yesterday relaxing at the beach. A beautiful sunset over the islands off the coast. I didn't know too much about the Balkin countries before this trip but they are definitely well worth the visit!

Croatia is a breathtaking country

Wow, just wow. I really don't have any other words to use to describe Croatia, nothing would do it justice. The waterfalls in Plitvicka are so incredible! There are miles of waterfalls that all cascade down in different directions. It is like being in a magical fairy tale land. Fall has just begun and the trees have orange and red leaves. Tourist season just ended so for the most part we had very few "Pogiebonies" (def: lost, loud tourists with cameras, on large buses or cruise ships). We also went to the beach and had a beautiful sunset. I love big cities but there is something so peaceful and relaxing about spending a few days in nature.  We also drove through Bosnia and Herzegovina today. Maybe a little dicey but we felt very safe and it was also a beautiful country. Now we are at our campground cookin' up some pasta. Being on the road you never get to eat consistent meals. You eat whatever is in the car, whenever you get a chance. As a result Adam has lost nearly 20 pounds! I've gained 2. Great.

30th country- Budapest, Hungary

This is the 30th country that Adam and I have been to together! We had a great few days with our couchsurfing host, named Miki. We were walking distance into the city, which is always nice. We walked along the Danube river on the Buda side of the city. I didn't realize one side is Buda and the other side is Pest. On the Buda side we saw the changing of the guard at the palace. Then we crossed to the Pest side and saw the largest synagogue in Europe, and  St Stephen's basilica. We set up for a bit at a Starbucks and had a yummy Pupkin Spice latte. Then we got completely lost in the city. We got a free map from the "hop on hop off" bus tours and we followed the wrong colored line. We were trying to find the famous Szechenyi  baths/spas and we ended up on the bad side of town. People were all staring at us. That was the worst we have ever gotten lost and it was actually quite scary. We finally figured it out and got to the right part of town. We visited Heroe's square and the szcheni baths. An estimated 2

million people a year visit these huge outdoor spas.  At night our host cooked us the traditional Hungarian chicken paprika. It was SOOO delicious!