Author: Kevin McCartney

First evening in Szczecin requires my first beer (pierwsze pivo), taken at my favorite restaurant, the “Cutty Sark.”  I had a pork chop with vegetables and potatoes (ziemniaki), with beer (Guinness), for about 30 zloti ($8~).

James Michener was a famous American writer of very long and detailed historical novels.  As a youth, I read “The Source” (archeological, set in Israel) and “Centennial” (Western, small Colorado town).  His novels try to offer a “complete” history and often start in a distant geological time.  “Poland” begins in the time of Genghis Khan (~1200).

Kevin checks in his bags at the Presque Isle airport.

Ready to leave