{"id":61615,"date":"2023-12-12T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=61615"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:58:38","slug":"roads-and-pristine-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2023\/12\/roads-and-pristine-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisty Roads and Pristine Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impossible not to be overwhelmed by the scenery of this beautiful Adriatic country.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not what you know; it\u2019s who you know. It\u2019s a business adage we all recognize, if not actually subscribe to. It emphasizes the advantage of close connections to those in power as more important than \u201cmere\u201d knowledge and skill, and that making friends in high places is never a bad thing when you\u2019re trying to make a buck.<\/p>\n<p>It may be even more important when you\u2019re travelling in foreign countries. Let\u2019s just say, for instance, you\u2019re a motorcyclist at the border of a former Eastern Bloc country \u2014 just for fun, let\u2019s say it\u2019s Montenegro \u2014 and the customs guard is rushing through a rapid-fire spittle of far too many consonants and not nearly enough vowels. The only word you catch might have sounded something like \u201cinsurance\u201d but you can\u2019t be sure. The only thing you can be sure of is that he is pointing across the road \u2014 with some emphasis! \u2014 to a building that looks too dilapidated to be a garage, let alone a place of high commerce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making the Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61630\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_0234-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">You are, at best, confused. You might even be scared. As in: the old \u201cWhat the h-e-double-hockey-sticks am I getting myself into?\u201d This is where, if you\u2019re smart and connected, you\u2019d text your new best friend Sergey, and in but a heartbeat, you would a) get directions to the building\u2019s back office, where you would be b) assured that, yes, up those seriously rickety stairs and through the crusty door is c) a guy sitting in a barely lit room asking for 10 Euros \u2014 cash only! \u2014 who really is a legitimate insurance broker. Or, at least as legitimate as you\u2019re going to get. More importantly, legitimate enough to get you into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Thus do you get into the beautiful western tip of the former Yugoslavia with five minutes of smiles and thank yous all around rather than spending two hours yelling at someone who really didn\u2019t give a you-know-what if you got into his country or not. That saving of time and aggravation, in case you\u2019re still struggling with the metaphor, is the result of who you know \u2026 because it most certainly wasn\u2019t what you knew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motorcycle Rentals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-61627\" src=\"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SVS08865-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">As for who Sergey Vikultsev might be, well, the first thing to know is that he\u2019s an expat Russian \u2014 long gone before the latest conflagration \u2014 who came to Montenegro seven years ago to work in IT on Peter Munk\u2019s Porto Montenegro superyacht marina and resort project and fell in love with the charm that is the little postage stamp-sized country on the Balkan\u2019s Adriatic.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed with Slavic hustle and entrepreneurial spirit, he\u2019s been managing money, moving automotive parts around the globe and, more important for my current need for people in high places, becoming Montenegro\u2019s resident motorcycle touring expert. The guy to know, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also one of the few people in the small country \u2014 just 620,000 people in 5,333 square miles (a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s impossible not to be overwhelmed by the scenery of this beautiful Adriatic country. It\u2019s not what you know; it\u2019s who you know. It\u2019s a business adage we all recognize, if not actually subscribe to. It emphasizes the advantage of close connections to those in power as more important than \u201cmere\u201d knowledge and skill, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2548,228],"tags":[2556,2171,2557],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montenegro Motorcycle Travelogue | Motorcycle Mojo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking to do some motorcycle riding in Montenegro? 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