LITHUANIA

So, leaving Poland.   We were just finishing up a bit of lunch at our rented apartment when the door was being unlocked and a woman entering.  Oh!  She was surprised as were we.  It was about 4:15 pm.  She spoke no English and we no Polish.  Keep in mind we had just finished a walking tour and were cold and tired.   She thought we left already.  We said no, tomorrow.  So we checked our itinerary.  SHE was correct!  So we apologized profusely and she left so we could get our things together.  A rush, is putting it mildly.  And...we had a reservation to be in a hotel in Zarasai that night.  We cleaned up everything and were on our way.  The GPS gave us directions for the fastest way there, but never does it include road work or the bazillion trucks that are on the road to slow one up.  The fastest way was not the best way as we found out.  There is a tiny slice of Belarus that the road comes between Poland and Lithuania,  After one hour of driving the road behind truck after truck after truck caravan, we came to a spot where over four miles ( not ks) of trucks were lined up on the right side of the road.  We knew then we were in some kind of trouble.
Yes, we were.  They would not let us enter the border.  So, back over the road we had just come for one hour, we traveled and got onto another road.  Two hours lost.  So, time went on and we knew we could not make our hotel commitment.  We were in the car for 8 straight hours with no dinner.  I grabbed the one banana we had and split that in two.  We had a bit of good bread that I broke into sections and that was our dinner.  We had some water.  We ended up in Kaunus, Lithuania at 12:15 according to our watch.  But, it was an hour different due to a time zone or whatever.  So, at 1:30 we finally were safely in a good bed and able to go to sleep.  Stuff of which experiences are made.  I might add the Kaunus is a lovely city and the people at the hotel were just great to us.  They even served a very good breakfast on that Sunday morning.