Two Backpacks One Couple
Follow us on our world tour
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Tuesday, July 29th – Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 World Tour Days: 270 – 271 It was time to leave Romania and head to our next country, Bulgaria. We walked to the bus station and waited for the bus that would take us across the border to Vidin. There was a strange man sitting across from us on the bus who kept talking video calls with no head phones. He would make his video screen big and the other persons small so he could look at himself instead of them, which we found funny. When it was time to get off…
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Tuesday, July 22nd – Monday, July 28th, 2025 World Tour Days: 262 – 269 Sibiu I had not arranged transportation from Balea Lake ahead of time. The area is extremely popular for tour busses, road trips, hikers, etc so I thought it was safe to assume that there would be at least taxis up there we could take. As it turns out, there wasn’t any form of transportation. There was supposedly a bus that comes from Sibiu, but it didn’t run on Tuesdays. I was worried this would hurt my near perfect logistics record. Nick and I brought our bags…
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Saturday, July 19th – Monday, July 21st, 2025 World Tour Days 259 – 261 Arrival to Balea Lake After our failed one night stop at Arefu, we were picked up by a driver to make the 1.5 hour drive to Balea Lake for our highlight of Romania. The drive was short, but the roads were so incredibly windy that I had to put my music on and just stare out the window focusing my best to not throw up. Luckily for me Nick answered all of the driver’s questions and attempts at deeper conversation so I did not have to.…
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Friday, July 11th – Friday, July 18th World Tour Days: 251 – 258 Bucharest We were in for a long travel day departing Asia and making our way to our third continent, Europe. After a few hours of failed sleep attempts we got our taxi to the airport for our 2:30am flight to Istanbul. Turkish Airlines served us the best airplane food ever; I still bring it up sometimes. After a quick (honestly too quick as we had to run to our next gate) layover in Istanbul we arrived to Bucharest, Romania by 9:00am. Passport control was one of the…