Traveling With Judi . . . .

I've gathered waaaayy too many pictures to post and we're setting off for new adventures again tomorrow, so I figured I'd better get something written about the last week!! After leaving Split, I endured a wild bus ride on a VERY "long and winding road" from Split to Dubrovnik (looking out over the mountainous edges into the sea for most of the journey!!), then I got settled and waited for my travel partner to arrive after her 24-hour journey (ugh!!)!!  After reconnecting at the Dubrovnik airport, we headed back to the apartment to wait for our ferry departure Wednesday night. I had rented the room for an extra day so Pam could shower after her long flight, but JUST as she was ready to shower, the water went off due to a broken pipe....yikes!! Fortunately, they were quick to fix it and she was able to get freshened up before our overnight ferry from Dubrovnik to Italy! On my previous ferry ride, I had been a bit disappointed by how smooth the ride was (no

I've thought about posting something about my journey a number of times in the last few weeks, but I kept feeling like I was in another world and wasn't able to find the motivation or words to share my experiences. I feel like I've now come full circle as I sit here at the same cafe in Split watching the crowds pass on the Riva (the seafront boardwalk) - the same cafe I passed time in nearly a month ago after my overnight ferry ride from Italy!! Once again, I have a few hours to kill waiting for transportation (this time a bus to Dubrovnik), but I feel more whole....more internally-focused and "grounded" rather than flying high and absorbing everything around me.  It took awhile for me to understand that during THIS part of my journey, I was meant to dig deep into the internal part of my process rather than keep exploring externally! At first, I struggled because I felt like I was "supposed" to keep sightseeing....after all, I was in a foreign