Monday, Nov. 12 - Driving Home

If you want...

• to see sheep on a regular basis, this is the country for you. They're much cuter when they aren't walking down the main European highway.
  

your cow to come home on time, don't salt your roads. Because the cows will stop (again, in the middle of a main European highway) and lick every last grain of salt off of the road. Even with logging trucks trying to gently edge them out of the way. And car horns screaming in their ears.

to get carsick, feel free to ride in the backseat of a car across the aforementioned "European highway" - which is actually just a two lane road that winds its way through the mountains - for 20 hours over the course of 4 days. Sometimes the road is nice and smooth, and other times it's...well, not so nice and smooth. I did really well on the way to Chisinau and okay for the first half of the trip home. The last half of the trip...not so great. But I've recovered now.

to see some of God's great handiwork, drive across the aforementioned highway. No, the highway itself isn't the greatest of handiwork (God didn't make it!), but the views are pretty spectacular.

too see snow, come visit. I'll take you to the mountains. We saw LOTS of snow there. And, just after we got back to Targu Mures, the snow started falling here. It melted off overnight, but I'm sure more is on its way! Here's the Monday evening view from my living room window (you can just make out the falling snow in the streetlight). So, come on over. The guest room is waiting ;)