Today's the Day!

Welcome to Renee and Krista's Great European Adventure 2010! I think we were both more excited than our students to be finished with school for the summer. So inquiring minds probably want to know...what inspired our grand adventure? Two words - grad school! I think after the crazy schedules we both lived through over the course of the past year or so, the thought of a vacation was too much to ignore! We may or not have gotten a little carried away with our planning, but go big or go home, right?!? :)

So what's on the agenda? We fly out of O'Hare today and will arrive in Paris tomorrow morning. From there, we catch a connecting flight to Zagreb, Croatia. In Zagreb, we will meet up with an REI Adventure travel group. We will spend about 2 weeks traveling throughout the mountain and coastal villages in Croatia, exploring the nooks and crannies of many national parks which Europeans have vacationed to for many years. Each day is filled with either hiking, biking, kayaking, rafting, caving, or some other active adventure. We end our Croatian tour in the coastal city of Dubrovnik on 7/5. From there, it's a flight to "The Eternal City" of Rome. The plan is to spend about 5 days there exploring the wondrous history of decades past. Our final destination is to the city of love and lights...Paris, France. We will be there for about 4 days or so before heading back to the states on 7/15.

We will try to keep you posted and write as often as we can (in between our sampling of gelato, of course ;) ). Please feel free to post comments or email us - we would love to hear from you!