Art of the Itinerary
Great Plans Make Great Trips!
There are places you visit, and places that visit you. Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia is firmly in the second category. We had seen photos online before adding it to our Epic Europe 2.0 itinerary, but nothing prepared us for the reality. It doesn’t even look like a place that really exists. Countless waterfalls …
I added Omiš to our Epic Europe 2.0 Eastern Europe itinerary for one reason: Craig hates long drives. Two to three hours behind the wheel, max. Looking at the map between Plitvice Lakes and Dubrovnik, I needed a stop that made geographic sense. Omiš¡ made the cut on location alone. What I didn’t expect was …
There are destinations you visit because they’re featured on every list, every feed, every travel blog you’ve ever seen. Lake Bled, Slovenia, is one of those places, and one of the few that truly earns the reputation. You arrive expecting to be disappointed. But then it surpasses all expectations. Bled was the fifth stop on …
Berlin, Germany’s Capital City Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, is renowned for its rich history, vibrant culture, and significance in European politics. For this trip, though, it served as the jumping-off point for our second multi-country adventure across Europe — jokingly nicknamed Epic Europe 2.0. This trip took us from Germany to …
Eastern European Road Trip — During a summer abroad in college, I spent six weeks taking classes in Innsbruck, Austria, with weekends free to explore. I made it to six countries that summer, and heard about a seventh from nearly every traveler I met along the way: Croatia. I never got there. It took twenty-five …
A Long-Awaited Return Prague, Czech Republic, was the second stop on our Epic Europe 2.0 cross-country road trip in the summer of 2023. For me, it was a long-awaited return — I’d first visited in 1997 while attending college classes in Innsbruck, Austria, and I fell hard for it. For the boys, it was their first time …
