Since we seem to have picked up a number of new followers, it seemed time to post a synopsis of the great expedition. Two years ago, Sarah got the notion to visit Romania and visit the ancestral village of the Dorans. She invited Ken, her dad to come along. Then somehow, a bunch of people decided to come along. Now we're up to 11 countries, 7 people, and 1 minivan, and will traverse 3200 miles over 22 days, starting next week.
This definitely counts as the trip of a lifetime. Three generations of Dorans will be trekking about the countryside, exploring the places that our family came from. We'll tromp through old graveyards, visit old churches, and explore new and interesting places. We'll have a lot of stops long the way to check out historical sites and other cool stuff.
The intrepid travelers include Ken, whose grandparents immigrated to the United States from Pankota, Romania (though it wasn't Romania then) in 1906, Ken's sister Patte, Ken's kids Sarah and Brian, Patte's daughter Sierra, Brian's wife Bridget, and Matthew, Ken's grandson and the nephew of Sarah and Brian. Luckily we all get along really well and are experienced roadtrippers! Three generations of Dorans, headed to the land our people!
We'll have plenty of internet connected devices, so we anticipate posting to the blog nearly every day. Sometimes it might just be a photo, others we'll take the time to write something. No doubt some will be boring to anybody who wasn't in the car that day, but hopefully we'll have a good record of what we saw and did.
So, there's your synopsis. And if you're wondering about the "bears" reference in the logo, refer to the blog we kept of our trip to Alaska in 2010. There were bears ....
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