Travel Location: Tulcea,Romania

Dad and I could do one of two things. We could either rent a car, drive north into the mountains, and see monasteries and the villages or take public transportation and explore the Danube River Delta and the Black Sea Coast. Visiting the villages is an attractive option, because in many parts of Romania the people still live as it were the Middle Ages. Some have never seen cars! It is how you imagine the American Amish horse-and-buggy lifestyle but with less modernization and outside influences. Because Dad enjoys water, we decided to hit the coast. When I was a child, I spent countless summers on the Tennessee River with my Dad. We did everything on the river: camping, drinking, riding in the boat to other cities, waterskiing, fishing, knee-boarding, barefoot and trick skiing (making human pyramids while skiing), intertubing, parasailing, and banana-riding. We have done it all on the water, so it only makes since that we will take a boat ride down the Danube River to the Black Sea. We spent the whole day on buses and trains getting to the gateway of the Danube Delta, the city of Tulcea. Here Dad splurged on the 3-star Hotel Delta with a view of the mighty Danube. I am in heaven compared to the places I have been sleeping. Thanks, Dad!

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