Our last international trip was in December 2019, and we arrived home in early January 2020 -- traveling through China, no less -- only weeks before the Covid 19 pandemic would take hold. With that, we had multiple trips planned and cancelled, as things slowly started to reopen. Katherine and I had booked a tour of Poland for the fall of 2020. It was, understandably, cancelled due to the pandemic. As we were in lockdown, we looked forward to traveling again and scoured various travel offers. Our favorite tour company -- Gate1 -- had very attractive offers for our previously cancelled Poland trip, as well as two interesting itineraries that included Romania. One was 12 days, all in Romania, while the other was 12 days covering Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia. We independently looked at all three, selected our choice, and were surprised that we both picked the Romania-only tour. Neither of us had ever visited Romania, nor did we know very much about the country or its history. Still, the itinerary was enough to pique our interest, so we booked in February 2021 for September 2022, hoping that 18 months would be enough time for a return to some semblance of normalcy. Even with all that time, though, given all the other fits and starts we've had since 2020, it was not until a couple days before our departure that we both actually started to believe that we would successful in traveling.
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