many years ago in Bohemia

It actually wasn't my first time. My first time was many years ago (1990) when I was living in Prague (Praha to the residents of this incredible city). One of my co-workers at Jazykova Skola (National Language School) invited me to visit her country house, about 40 minutes outside the city by train. Her name was Jana Rohlikova. I suppose she is still there, tromping around the wild Bohemian countryside with her long braid, grey now, thumping her back. The country was Czechoslovakia; the split-up of the Czech Republic and Slovakia would happen a few years later. We walked for hours and hours, through the forest, over hills, in and out of towns. We did find houby (mushrooms), filling the basket I carried. I took notes: mech (moss), borovice (pine), briza (birch), vrana (crow). That was my first time mushrooming.