This was originally intended to be a jaunt to complete the eastern countries of Europe that Murphy and MacKay hadn’t been to yet in a nice wholesome circle (Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia). Instead we flew to the Czech Republic, did the first four then beelined to Munich and went south through all of the Balkan countries we hadn’t been to yet. And then for some reason we crossed the Adriatic and ended up in Rome.

Oogie joined for a stint in the beginning. We hit a ton of whacky museums, had a sobering day in Auschwitz, caught a fat guy doing fat guy stuff off a wharf, sabotaged Vilnius, had a Kiek in de Kok, won a Shithead tournament, crashed a Bosnian birthday party in Austria, learned about Ass Antlers, returned to the Nis fortress, high fived Alexander the Great, hit the Journey of the Stone, started an Albanian dog posse, visited Pompeii, met up with Simon, Cheryl and the seven secrets in Bologna, and went to the Colosseum and The Vatican. It was a lot.