Our next to last night in Macedonia did not go well for me. For the past year I have been taking an over-the-counter sleep aide called melatonin. Anyone who has ever lived with me knows that I am an insomniac. Melatonin has been a fairly effective sleep aide without the side effects of some of the other options. What I didn´t know was how dependent I had become on my magic sleeping pill. I ran out in Macedonia with no possibility for a replacement bottle, which resulted in me staring at the ceiling until 5:30 in the morning. I mention this to give you reference point for my state of mind over the next few days.
The following day we took an hour bus ride to the southwest corner of Lake Ohrid to one of Macedonia´s most famous churches, Sveti Naum. It is a beautiful area, bordered on one side by Lake Ohrid and on the other by a completely clear spring-fed lagoon. Dramatic mountains punctuate the backdrop. After having lunch at the monastary hotel, we decided to skip the next bus and check out the local national Park. Having had a good lunch we were feeling ambitious and decided we could walk the road up to one of scenic view points in the mountains. As with most of my excursion into the outdoors, the hike became a little epic; we spent the entire day hiking only to see the last bus going down the road while we were still a mile away. After standing around in the middle-of-nowhere Macedonia, in the dark, we started hiking to the next town. Luckily we managed to flag down a taxi headed back to Ohrid.
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