e came to realize that Euro-camping means moving your home somewhere else. People bring so much of home with them that they have to construct make-shift walls to claim territory for all of their belongings. The campgrounds also do their share of providing groceries, restaurants, and bars all within walking distance from your home away from home. We left camp one morning as two RV's landed not 10 feet away from our tent. The screen patio was coming out as we walked away.

o, here we are in Ljubljana. Is it possible to have so many l's and j's in one word? It is an old city on the brink of being a new one. There is a lot of renovation and restoration going on here - a memorable time to experience a city in transition.

n a more general travel note, it is funny how quickly we adapt to non-native surroundings. Both of us wish we were fluent in other tongues. The U.S. is so big it isn't as readily apparent as it is in Europe how meaningful it is to know other languages. All this taken into account, we seem to have adapted to not being accustomed to understanding the spoken word around us, maybe even too much at times. We were leaving a train platform the other day when an older man unexpectedly shouted at me from behind. I turned and saw him waving and hobbling toward us from about 50 feet away. As he approached, I said to him, "I'm sorry. I only know English." "Yes," he said, "I was speaking to you in English!" On another occasion, one waiter we had told us frankly, "You say 'Ja', I give you Deutsch. You say 'Yes', I give you English...and so on." Oh, to be such a polyglot! In the meantime, we put our noses in our phrase books and try as best we can.

omorrow is another country (Hungary) and another way to ask the everyday important questions of life!