The Motherland –or– Travels in Croatia

In 2012 I hopped over to Croatia to visit family I had grown up seeing pictures of, and to visit a country that had an incredible influence on my entire life since I was a young kid. Even as far back as when I was just an infant- my grandma through some quiet whispering I’m sure, convinced me to call her Baba and that I made that word up… much later in life I would realize that is actually a Croatian word for grandma.