Getting started

    Internet access is a bit dodgy in the part of Romania where we started our trip. Like all countries where the telephone system is run by the state, everyone uses cell phones for everything.
    We landed in Frankfurt at 0900 and waited through the 5 hour layover for the plane to Buchurest. Ion Zanca's family met us at the airport at 1700 (we lost another hour going east), and we all drove to the family residence in Gura Sutii.


Specifically, this is located here Gura Sutii is located in a large agricultural region, where the narrow roads are often blocked by livestock or horse-drawn carts. Thought there is a lot of corn growing, the main crop being harvested right now is potatoes.