May 6, 2023 - Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Today we left Austria, passed through Slovenia and Croatia, and arrived at our Airbnb in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was only 137 miles but took us most of the day.  Luckily, it was another great weather day, mid to upper-70s and mostly sunny.

The reason it took so long is that we had to buy a toll road vignette (toll card) for Slovenia and stop to manually pay tolls in Croatia.  Also, when we crossed out of the EU into B&H the crossing guards were not having a good day and did not cooperate in helping us buy motorcycle liability insurance.  Instead, they let us through after a few awkward exchanges in English and Bosnian.  This is very odd because they never checked the insurance, title or registration for the bike. So, now, we have to wait until Monday to buy liability insurance here in Bihac and keep our fingers crossed nothing happens ...  all part of the adventure of adventures. 

I noticed that for some reason the tracker stopped tracking us in Slovenia.  Fear not, we continued on to Bihac in good shape.

We will be staying here in Bihac for 3 nights, leaving Tuesday the 9th.

Our Airbnb. Our apartment is in the lower right with the door open.  

We did not have to buy a separate international plan for our cell phone service.  The plan we have includes international texting and data.

They love their sausage here in B&H.  This is one isle in a local grocery store.

We got this coupon to the restroom when we bought a coffee at a gas stop.  Such a simple idea, we should have these in the US.

Our toll road vignette for Slovenia good for 7 days and cost 7.50 Euros

Susie is allergic to mushrooms and onions so it's important to let servers in restaurants know this when ordering.  But, sometimes it's really difficult to get this communicated.  That's where Google Translate comes in handy, especially with the Bosnian and other Balkan languages that use Cyrillic script.  There is no way we could pronounce the Bosnian translation but this app will play the pronunciation.  This is good AI.