Those Peloza Kids: Travel

This is a long overdue post combining several travel experiences. First, from home base back in the days when those Peloza kids had grown ups come and stay with them while parents travel.

On to the aforementioned travels. Ireland is up first. Here we are in a random park in Dublin.

Surveying a lake in Glendalough, the part of the country where St. Kevin did some stuff a long time ago. I always thought Kevin was more of a 20th century name.

Here are pictures of each other on Alexis' birthday in Dublin.

Back home we hosted a couple of Slovenians in Kentucky for a couple days.

Along with a couple of Illinoisans.

From there Eva and I trucked up to Canada with the aforementioned Slovenians to take in some shows. First stopping in Windsor for a bit of a family reunion.

Then shows around Toronto, hanging with the band.

And the living legend himself, Walter Ostanek.

The trip included a first, a campus visit. This one to U of T.

Followed by a contemplative bubble tea in Chinatown.

Another recreation of a picture from years earlier. Not quite the same vantage point, but pictures from 2017 compared to 2025.

Home base was a mansion in the middle of nowhere, Port Perry. It's where Eva found her passion for hospitality, supported by about $190 in tips.

After years of wondering who pays to go on that boat that takes you up to the bottom of Niagara Falls, we learned it was us.

During a break in the travel, more meals out in Lexington.

A whole 48 hours back home and then it was time to go again. This time for Levi to test his maturity by being home on his own for basically two weeks while the rest of us went to Europe. Hence no pictures of Levi.

But plenty of travel pics, beginning with Istanbul. Not Constantinople. More eating, drinking and walking.

It was on these walks that I learned all about Turkish culture and I felt spiritually at home.

A city cruise was a great way to close the trip, since we could get a sense of what we were looking at from the Bosphorus Strait straddling Europe and Asia.

Istanbul, not Constantinople, was the home of cats. A feature that would mark many of our stops on the trip.

Next stop Sarajevo, a first time to Bosnia and also the first time to And Herzegovina. A unique opportunity to walk an abandoned Olympic bobsled track.

Managed to get a table on the second night at the world famous Dveri restaurant. It's not yet world famous but what until people read this.

Next stop, the world famous - already famous - Mostar and it's bridge.

Second only to the world famous - now that Eva and I have t-shirts - Craft Beer Garden. Where Eva now has a permanent art installation. Also knows as a picture that is hanging next to the taps. It's a drunken jellyfish.

Next stop, Croatia. Cavtat was the selected site, choosing to forego the touristy Dubrovnik. That sunset.

The aforementioned Dubrovnik. You don't see nuthin' in Dubrovnik but Dubrovnik.

Pushing north to Split, the land of sea views and interesting driveways.

It's where I discovered my interest in photographing the moon in the night sky.

Living like royalty. Dinner on the floor.

Next stop, that little patch between Rijeka and Opatija. The land of pizzas cut with scissors and nfinity pools.

One more recreation, this time it's 2018 and 2025.

The last stop was back in Ljubljana. Land of Slovenian family and more recreation photos. First at the Friday afternoon Odprto Kuhna.

This time the recreation is missing the chalk drawings, but it's 2019 and 2025.

More food and drink. First, Burija winery.

Eva took this captivating photograph.

Then Krhne in Vipava for lunch.

Then Cultus winery. A stone with a funny 1 like they used to write it in 1683.

But Tacen is the epicenter. Eva and Taja walk Figo, and expend some energy on the trampoline. Not a recreation per se, but two kids from 2019 and 2025.