Thank you to everybody who's pre-ordered @soka so far! It's been a couple of days since I opened up pre-orders on the App Store, so the pre-order trends are starting to show up in App Store Connect.
A reminder that we launch this coming Friday on June 2! Just in time for anybody who's traveling to WWDC that same weekend, or if you (like me) are going on a vacation after WWDC is finished! 😂
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The late Ian Hacking was the author of, amongst many other things, "Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses". I'm still trying to evaluate the impact this book had on me.
#SplitHappens - part 11. We had heard that Croatia had good wines, and decided to tour the wine regions. It didn’t take long before we were disabused of the notion that Croatia’s wine country would be anything like Italy’s Chianti Road. This was before iPhones, so we were relying on a printed version of directions we downloaded from Google Maps. More than once I just threw up my hands when the directions said “Go straight for 43.3 km. Turn left.” That’s all. Turn left. #TravelTuesday
#SplitHappens - part 14. After bouncing around the interior of Croatia, your intrepid travelers decided to take a beat and rent a house in Istria for the month of September. Istria is a county in Croatia that is so close to Italy we could almost taste it, not surprisingly since it was historically part of the Republic of Venice. We found ourselves in the tiny hamlet of Smoljanci, which I’m pretty sure is Croatian for Hooverville. #TravelTuesday#Wanderlust
#SplitHappens - part 15. Imagine growing up in a place where it is normal to practice soccer after school in the shadow of a 500-year old castle on a green that used to be the castle moat. Svetvincenat was the closest “big town” during our month in Istria. September 2012. #TravelTuesday#Wanderlust
#SplitHappens - part 16. During our month in Istria, we never knew what the day would bring. We came to learn that Saturdays meant weddings. We went to the little beach town of Fazana for a sunset stroll and dinner, and caught this couple parading through the center of the town with their whole entourage to the water's edge. We then watched as they gathered on a rock jetty and drank champagne while they waited for the sun to set. #TravelTuesday#Wanderlust
#SplitHappens - part 18. The best part about our month in Istria was the easy access to the rest of the peninsula. Within a half hour, we could reach two beautiful harbor towns, Rovinj and Pula, a peaceful fjord, and a smaller fishing village, Fazana. A little further up the road to the north was another historical harbor town, Poreč (formerly known as Parentium - how cool is that?), and picturesque ancient hill towns of the interior. #TravelTuesday#Wanderlust
#SplitHappens - part 20. At day 60 of our Magical Mystery Tour, we left Istria to return to Croatia’s mainland, and it just kept getting better. We took the ferry over to the islands of Kres-Losinj and enjoyed perhaps the most dramatically beautiful coastal drive I'd ever seen. (Well, when I didn't have my eyes squeezed shut, that is!) Mali Losinj is a fishing village which combined medieval cobblestone streets with a laid-back Keys feeling. #TravelTuesday#Wanderlust