• A kindred spirit

    August 22, 2025 in Montenegro ⋅ 🌙 70 °F

    Peace Corps Montenegro driver, Luka, drove us around Montenegro, but he was more than a driver. He had traveled around the world, has lived in other countries and is a student of life. Many hours of great conversation—in English. Montenegrin language seems harder to me than Albanian, also because Google Translate does not even have it on their long list of languages. Montenegro wasn’t on my list of countries to visit and I knew nothing about it. Well, one thing: I saw a video of Trump pushing their president out of the way to be in the center of the picture at a meeting of European leaders. That’s not much knowledge. Oh, and I knew it used to be part of the former Yugoslavia. Tiny country (half the population of the city of San Diego), great people.Read more