Of Course We Have Insurance !!!

25 September ’04, Saturday. Charlie and Tammie from Australia, and now living in London, dropped by early this morning to say goodbye and pass on some literature and advise for our journey into Bosnia-Hercegovina. They had recently been there and had some good advise on were to camp in Mostar and Sarajevo. They also had a couple of funny stories about their border crossings there that they passed on to us. Well, we had to get gas and find a grocery store to spend our last Croatian money in prior to going across the border. As it was, we arrived at the cashiers stand with more goods than we had money for….we ended up putting the additional $5. US on the credit card…not good planning. Ok, finally underway. After back-tracking from our drive down to Dubrovnik for about an hour, we arrived at the border station entering into Bosnia-Hercegovina. We were lucky, as there was only 3 cars ahead of us as we approached. Our luck soon ran out…. We have been through so many border crossings, that I couldn’t even start to tell you how many. Now, not all have asked for our “green card” for the van (That is our proof of insurance), but some had and today was one of those days. It seems that ALL the others had over looked the fact that the insurance rider had the dates for validity all messed up. We were to be covered from March 15, ’04 to March 15, ’05, or as they put it on paper 15-03-04 to 15-03-05. Well, we had never noticed it ourselves, but it reads 15-12-03 for the start, which is ok, but the other side (void after) reads 15-05-03, which means it was cancelled 7 months prior to issue. WE HAVEN’T HAD ANY INSURANCE COVERAGE !!! You might say that I had a lift-off of some type. I am lucky to have a much milder mind and temperament sitting eside me in the van day after day. She stayed cool and made arrangements for us to BUY, 7 days insurance for $20 Euro, to get us through Bosnia and enough time for me to get to a computer and email Donna at Turnervans in Utrecht. The out-come, has yet to be, but we are optimistic things will work out. After all, we have Bon and Douglas to meet in Istanbul on the 4th. We had wanted to stop and spend sometime in Medugorje today, but we felt all we could do was, drive in to see it by car, have a quick lunch, and get on our way to Sarajevo for the night. As it was, we arrived at the campground after dark. This isn’t what you want to do, if this is the first time in the
area. Tomorrow….heading across Yugoslavia and onto Sofija, Bulgaria