{"id":665,"date":"2007-09-28T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/?p=665"},"modified":"2007-09-29T07:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T18:10:01","slug":"momma-im-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Momma I&#8217;m Coming Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news &#8211; we purchased our airline tickets home! On November 21st, after 368 days on the road, we will fly from Istanbul, Turkey to Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. It&#8217;s hard to believe we have less than 60 days of bicycle touring left. Our rough plan is to cycle through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina\">Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulgaria\">Bulgaria<\/a> on our way to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a>. If we arrive in Turkey ahead of schedule, we&#8217;ll cycle down the Aegean coast before heading back to Istanbul to fly home.<\/p>\n<p>We also said goodbye to Sean today. After spending two days hanging out in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Split\">Split<\/a>, Sean headed north towards Zagreb and we headed east, away from the Adriatic and towards the mountainous interior. It was a little strange to be back on the bikes after close to two weeks of taking it easy. I found myself worrying about all the same things I agonized over at the beginning of the trip: flat tires, mechanical failures, getting hit by a car, and the like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/1453455067\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/2007-09-28-12-12-09.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" alt=\"2007-09-28-12-12-09\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beautiful scenery helped to ease my mind though. After about 10 kilometers on the busy coastal road, we turned inland and headed through some gorgeous mountain scenery towards Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/1454327794\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/2007-09-28-13-10-36.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" alt=\"2007-09-28-13-10-36\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll cross the border tomorrow and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mostar\">Mostar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarajevo\">Sarajevo<\/a>. The weather today was great: sunny but with nice crisp fall air to keep us from overheating on the climbs. We are hoping the weather holds out until we get across the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news &#8211; we purchased our airline tickets home! On November 21st, after 368 days on the road, we will fly from Istanbul, Turkey to Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. It&#8217;s hard to believe we have less than 60 days of bicycle touring left. Our rough plan is to cycle through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-croatia","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}