Ah...finally back to some normal internet connections!!! I am feeling whole again! Friday we departed from Krakow with all of us wishing we could stay longer but vowing to return again. We stopped in what we thought was the village of Myslenice to try and find some of Emilys Pilacinski relatives...sorry about the typos...Slovak keyboards are different and I am having trouble finding some of the punctuation marks. It turns out Myslenice is a town of 20,000 people. She and I stopped at various stores and businesses to try and find a phone book...or at least someone who spoke English. We were finally ushered to the church where we encountered an older gentleman who recognized the name and promised Emily that as soon as he returned from his vacation he would do some research and contact her. We ate on the lovely town square and then continued our venture southward.

We also stopped in the village of Gorlice to visit the Orthodox church there where the relics of St. Maxim Sandovych are kept. St. Maxim was a Carpatho-Rusyn priest who was martyred during WW I. His great-nephew is Fr. Daniel Ressetar of Harrisburg, PA, a friend.

We were happy to once again be in Slovakia and shortly after we crossed the border we stopped at the Salas Lesna just outside of Bardejov for a reunion with Kathy Miller and Toni Simmons who have been traveling here.