The Old Bosoni Backtrack

One rider to have taken Erik’s routing advice – however unintentionally – is Ross Gray (291). Having planned from North Macedonia, like several others, to approach Serbia through Kosovo, Ross had chanced his luck at the diplomatic mood of the Kosovo-Serbian border. In the end, however, it wasn’t foreign frictions that scuppered his departure from Kosovo, but domestic ones.

Having entered the country through a local border just north of Skopje, Ross had failed to secure himself an entry stamp. At the exit border, then, it wasn’t the Serbian authorities challenging Ross’s entry, but the Kosovan authorities contesting his departure. In the realm of passport-related mishaps, only one remedy exists: the Bosoni Backtrack.

Retracing his steps, Ross was forced to forge a 150 km detour back through the mountainous terrain of Kosovo’s North-Macedonian border, eventually arriving back on route in Southern Serbia. But like Bosoni, Ross was unflappable in the face of his misfortune. The diversion was swallowed with remarkable equanimity, and the Brit continued on his way towards the Black Sea as if nothing had happened
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https://www.lostdot.cc/blog/tcrno11-day-15-the-flight-of-a-phoenix

Nice to see that Victor Bosoni's mishap in #TCRNo10 led to the new technical term "The Old Bosoni Backtrack":
https://www.lostdot.cc/blog/tcrno11-day-15-the-flight-of-a-phoenix

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