Road Trip, Part 3

After we left Split, we headed over to Smiljan, a village outside of Gospic, to check out the Nikola Tesla birth house and memorial center. Nikola Tesla is an electrical engineering genius and is considered the father of radio and is single handedly responsible for our AC/DC system of electricity... and he was born in Croatia. If you want to know more, check out his wikipedia page (http://bit.ly/9NXtR).

The day before the northern part of Croatia had a huge blizzard and got an obscene amount of snow in one night. It was bizarre to see such a change in climate and really just in the land from where we came from. We went from the sunny (kind of) beach to a winter wonderland in the mountains in a period of about 2 hours. The great thing is that by the time we got there, the temperature had risen up to around 50 degrees during the day, but the sheer volume of the snow kept everything so pretty for the whole time we were up north. Great for us Floridians...snow without the freezing. I like.

This is exactly how it happened:

Driving and we see the tunnel

We go through the tunnel

And then, boom, whiteness...

... and yes that is just a giant wall of snow.

Unfortunately, when we got to Tesla's, either they closed early or they don't stay open past 3:30 or the snow factored in somehow, but we didn't get to go in anywhere. It was fine, we observed from the outside and had the whole place to ourselves. 

That's his little house in the background.

His "yard," I guess. On the left his his father's Orthodox church.

Gio with his new love.

After this little visit to Smiljan, we headed to our B&B outside of Plitvice Jezera National Park, which just so happens to be the next leg of the journey. Off into the sunset...