From Pest 2 Timisoara (9 hour endeavour)

Yes, today I was on the road for 9 hours going from Buda-Pest to Timisoara Romania. Why, well for one, I was detained by Romanian customs for almost 1 hour for reasons not explained to me, so I didn't ask..........something about letting sleeping dogs lie.

Then the so called major roads in Romania are one lane going and coming and the speed limit is 55 mph and slower throug villages.Then because they changed the way streets are in the area where my hotel was, it tooke me an hour to find the bloody hotel even with GPS, which was wrong because no one told Garmin I suppose. I am so tired that now I can't sleep. However the hotel was a bargain find, a 4 star jobby for a 2-3 star price $106/night for a double room with free breakfast, free parking on the hotel car park, and right in the city centre square.

Incidentally, this is just the top area of northern Romania so I have to travel all throughout it in another day to go straight to Sofia Bulgaria, which will probably be a 12-14 hour drive, the longest continuous jaunt thus far.

See the photags.

 Still in Hungary heading south

 A lot of strange clouds or chem trails

 A few southern Hungarian villages

 A homeless wild dog, near the Romanian customs house

looking and begging for food, 

which we (some trucker and me) him

 I paid not tax here, why???

 Customs house

 Now entering Romania

 Getting close to Timisoara

 Romanian Villages

 Stuck in Traffic in Timisoara

 Le Hotel Timisoara

 Cool digs, what?

 Bigger than a New York City studio apartment

 Lobby area

 The cool steel and glass lift

 This hotel has original art all over the place,

I will take photos of all the art tomorrow

 A Hippo-po-mato-juice sculpture outside of hotel

 A sculpture piece in the lobby by the lift

noapte buna la toata lumea

(Good night to everyone; in Romanian)

 

Well off to bed now I hope I can sleep good tonight.

 

Romania is cool!

 

D.