You Can’t Always Trust Google Maps. Also, Chill and Be Batsi. July 21, 2019

We all slept through the night! Some of us better than others. Aaron was up at 5 am, but went back to sleep. I slept until 7:45. I had to wake the boys up at 11. Seems like we are getting with it.

Today we attempted to get to Vitali Beach. I’m not going to lie, my hopes and expectations were extremely high. This beach looks gorgeous. My failure is that I trusted google maps, and I learned something. It’s much better to ask locals. Google maps took un on a route with roads that were meant for only the goats and sheep that live in those mountains. The only reason we got as far as we did is because Aaron is obsessed with cars and car shows and he has a true talent for driving. He was even a hero for other people who stupidly took this goat road as well. They bottomed their car on a huge rock. Aaron saved the day for them. We got almost all the way to Vitali Beach, we could not make it the last few miles. The road was washed out and not even our hero could get our little shitty car up that hill. We did make it to a nearby beach. It was gorgeous and windy af. Not ideal for relaxing, but ideal in beauty. We might try again, depending on the winds. There is a lot of wind on this island, out in the middle of the ocean.

We made it home, a different and much better route.

Tonight we had a Lemon Chat with a local who conducts these chats in his crazy tree house in Batsi. He gave us all the local tips of where to go, what to avoid, so now we are set and will not drive goat roads. He confirmed that the goat roads we took were very bad and very, very wrong. He was excellent, we had a great chat. Made lemonade using lemons from his lemon tree and fresh spring water that flows through the stairway in Batsi. So strange, but also a magical tree house.

Onto Batsi for some nightlife. Everyone was there, things don’t get started until 9pm. We had snacks and drinks. Walked around, enjoyed the wind. Now it’s time for sleep. We are all pooped. Goat roads will do that. Also, I cried a little. I was so so so frustrated that we could not get all the way to that damn beach.

Love you and miss you.

Love ,

Eden