The trip to the Blues & Brews Festival at Reservoir Dogs Brewery looked easy enough. Nova Gorica is on the Italian border, only two hours from Ljubljana. One of the brewery owners said he could pick me up in the town and drive me to the campsite where the festival was. All I had to do was travel to Nova Gorica.
Everything fell apart.
First, a guy I met at the Happy Ol’ McWeasel concert said he was driving to Nova Gorica, but he canceled at the last minute. So I tried to arrange an online rideshare, but the app didn’t work on my phone. Next, I tried reserving bus tickets online, but the Slovenian transportation website kept crashing.  I nixed hitchhiking since it was rainy and overcast that day. By the time I thought to buy tickets directly at the bus station, it was already too late to go. I thanked the Reservoir Dogs guys for their help and said. hey, maybe next time.
However, my good luck hadn’t run out. On that last Ljubljana pub crawl, it got better.
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