We woke up, packed our bags and crossed the Mur into Slovenia, where once again we must adjust to saying good morning, please, and thank you in a different language. Chad is still tending to speak German but Jowita has just switched back to Polish as it seems to work the same here. We decided just before we hopped on our bicycles to head to Ptuj instead of staying in the larger Maribor. We are happy with the decision as the small size suits us well. Ptuj is the oldest town in all of Slovenia and the small apartment we rented for a couple days pre-dates 1690 but they aren’t exactly sure. We will depart tomorrow in the direction of Dravograd and the mountains. We changed our minds once again today and are going to give it a go after the urging by the gentleman we are renting from, that the route we were changing to was going to be a disappointment. He said we will not be disappointed going to the mountains. We hope he is right. Jowita took her bike into the shop around the corner and had her crank changed out to a mountain bike crank to take a little pressure off getting up the steep grades with a heavy load. The lower gears should help out tremendously. So here we go….hopefully the next photos you see will have some big mountains in them, but we’ll see.