You could take the bus from Zagreb to the front line at Turanj, which is a suburb of Karlovac. The fighting in the area had subsided, but it was still sort of dangerous. "Hotel California" was a common name for soldiers' temporary residences anyplace where the war was. Notice I'm wearing a Nikon F4 around my neck. I had three of them and they all went belly up. When I returned to San Francisco after six months in the war I switched to Canon EOS cameras. By the way, I'm not short. This guy was at least 2 meters tall.