Travel Day - Bye to Zabjlak

We were planning on starting out at 08:00 hours this morning – 480 km to go. However Microsoft decided to do an update on Ferda’s laptop that took until 10:00 hours to complete so 2 hours gone. (Can’t stop in the middle or else you are in deep …)

Once we got started and across the Durmitor massif leaving Zabljak, Montenegro we thought we had it made to good road but Russ’s navigator sent us the wrong way over a narrow and horrible road - that lasted the better part of an hour out and back.

On the way to the Bosnia border from there the road in Montenegro is quite good but once in to Bosnia it goes to hell. A very rough narrow single lane paved and rough rock for the second lane - another 20 km in an hour with single lane wooden bridges. Had a great time trying to pass the clown in front of us that was crawling along!

Like we said on FB – 6 hours to cover 130 km – no speed records there!
We did eventually find a freeway type road - 48 km from Sarajevo to Zenica. (and paid 5 euros for 52 km!) The rest of the way was good two lane if a little crooked.

Hair pin turns made in a tunnels  - We had never seen that before. The tunnels on the back roads were rough stone inside - no concrete but there were stone piles along the side where material had fallen from the roof. And they were continuous (like 20 or something) eventually we arrived the main road.

The last 5 km to where we were staying was once again crawl along speed – too much fun.

We saw people cutting grass hay with a scythe or a walk behind mower. We saw people making rows of the cut hay by hand with forks and piling it in to the cute stacks – a lot of work! I expect they would be happy to earn 15$ per day (just like 50 lira in our country) – forget 15$ per hour.