On the night train to turkey… Well, I am leaving Romania with CS Katie after our three night stint in Cluj Naboaca, Singhau, and Brasov. Draculas castle was more or less what I expected after reading their website before I arrived. It is mostly dedicated to a queen of Romania after Vlad the impaler "Vlad Dracula" was the main resident of the castle. They had a couple of rooms with the history of vampires and the ties to Transylvania, but nothing much...

Romania…wow it is very different from the rest of western Europe. I can see that now is the part of the trip that is gonna test my travel skills and adaptability to another way of life, which is good and I am initially not enjoying the experiences, but recognize they will be needed later on in the travels, so I am taking it as a learning experience to use later.. Romania, is still very much a third world country in the fact that there are a large portion of the...