Two people in a car. Heading out. Very curious.

See what we find. Take a break. Toggle between links to the countries. See where many of us, from European immigrants, originated. Home school yourself on history and places.

Method. Loose. We choose a country, rent a car, and see what happens.

Mapping. Backwards.

1. Put stickies in a travel handbook, for places of any interest, any reason. Look at the pictures.

2. Open a map on the dining room table, and put red dots on a road map for each stickie.

3. When there, head in any direction toward any cluster of red dots. No matter where we get lost, we can check for a nearby destination with a famous red dot. Works great. We also divert to road sign places.

We may follow a coast, or the overall shape of a country with forays inland, or do figure eights.

Lures. Unconnected. If we know a find a place connected to a song or a legend, or heard of a battle, migrating people, Plague, special foods, characters from the arts, we go there. The journey is the thing.

Why this way?

We like to figure things out. Look it up later. What can we learn when we are not being told. What can we see, or hear, when our attention is not directed by somebody with an Agenda..

Maybe what we are taught does not relate to what is there.

Why two in the car?

Add more, and you become a group.

With just two, choices and dynamics are simpler, and local contacts probably warmer.

The Car-Dan Tour Company

Trips for the Nuts

Established, so to speak, in 1999

A company in name only - Dan and Carol Widing just keep each other company.

At other times, Jon, or Carol and Jon, also may take off *

* Asterisk shows trips different from usual Car-Dan

One of our rules: If there is a ferry, take it.

This one is a local, in Croatia: From Orebic to the island of Korcula. Admire the packing.