I am falling way behind on my writing, so the next few posts will be short.
The drive from Zadar to Ljubljana was very nice. The road, the A1, is a fairly new highway, with 2 lanes in each direction. The scenery was wonderful and you also go through a number of tunnels, 2 of which are over 3.5 miles long.
I had a two options for the route: one was all freeway via Zegreb and the other was mostly freeway, but the remaining 45 miles was backgrounds via Nova Mesto. The second route was shorter, both in distance and time, so that was the route I took.
The Nova Mesto route was gorgeous and the town itself was very beautiful. I have no problems going through the border crossing when I entered Slovenia. The line-up was only about 10 cars and there was only about a 15 minute wait to cross. It's interesting that the crossing has two separate border agents only a few feet apart, and you need to hand your passport to each of them. I'm not sure what the purpose of both agents are, but both only briefly looked at my passport and then waved me through with the only difference being that the second one stamped it.
Arriving into Ljubljana was a little stressful as I did not have directions and no phone service so, when in need, find a MacDonald's as I know they always provide free wifi. I managed to find one next to the biggest shopping center in the city and contacted my host. While waiting to hear back from her, I went into the mall and looked around. It was a very nice area.
To make a long story short, I contacted my host who gave me directions to her place which fortunately was only a couple of miles from my current location. I found the place, a very nice apartment, and I'm staying in her son's room. After I settled in, we sat on her balcony drinking beer and discussing politics. More on this later.
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