Yesterday I left Stockholm, Sweden, around 10am, with plans to fly and arrive, after a layover in Belgrade, Serbia, to my home town of Zagreb, Croatia, by about 2:30pm.
Things didn’t work out as I planned.
First, I didn’t make my connecting flight in Belgrade (I blame Nikola Tesla Airport for this).
Second, there were no other flights from Belgrade to Zagreb yesterday, so I decided to take the bus, which left at 4:15pm. The drive is about four hours, but factor in about an hour for the border crossing, and we should be in Zagreb by 10pm?
Again, things didn’t work out as I planned.
I had many adventures last night, including…
– Walking through the corn fields for hours alongside the 3-mile-long border-crossing queue…
– Seeing an old Serbian man on my bus watching two-black-dudes-and-a-blonde hardcore porn on his phone…
– Border police openly asking for a bribe of two beers and 50 euro to allow the bus to skip the line and cut down the wait by an hour and a half…
– Stumbling around an Orthodox cemetery in the dark, in no man’s land, between the Serbian and Croatian border, at the witching hour…
– Driving out of the way to some small village to swap bus drivers, Le Mans style, after our bus driver became too exhausted to drive in his 10th hour behind the wheel…
… but I really can’t go into any of that in tremendous detail. That’s because my bus, which was supposed to arrive around 10pm, ended up arriving at 4:05am, almost 12 hours after it set out.
I dragged my carcass to the nearest hotel and had a lousy and short night of sleep.
Right now, as I write this, I’m exhausted. And in any case, it’s soon time for me to get back on the bus and head for the Croatian coast, so I can meet up with the rest of the numerous and warlike Bejakovic clan in the seaside resort town of Opatija.
So without further ado, let me just get to my offer. It’s my Simple Money Emails course, which I’ve promoted a few times over the past week, and made sales of each time I promoted it.
In one email this week I featured a testimonial I got for SME from online creator Kieran Drew. Yesterday, I got another high-profile testimonial, this one from Maliha Mannan, founder of The Side Blogger, who helps people monetize their skills via blogging and newsletters. Says Maliha:
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So… since you’re promoting SME, thought I’d share this…
Like Kieran Drew, I too, go through this course… often… haven’t really counted, but often… and yet, I forget stuff. Today, I was re-reading the 12 rules of emails and when I came across #6, I was like… Oookaayyy… I just violated rule #6… inside a promo email no less!
Anyway. Good stuff. One of my more underrated investments of all time.
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For more information on this underrated investment, or if you’d like to help support my daily bus habit: