Best Eastern Odessa Hotel

... for us. It was full of ducks, one swan and one white duck with a puff of white down on top of its' head.<br><br><br><br>There is a Veteran's Memorial next to the C of C office. It is quite impressive, we took some pictures. The C of C building is surrounded with American Flags for Veteran's Day.

Yes, I was there on the famous Potemkin Stairs. In fact, I climbed down them, but there is a little cable car that carries you back up, if you wish to avoid walking. Which is what I did.<br><br>I was in quest of a cheaper ferry service from Odessa to Istanbul, but..nada. The only one I could find charges 180usd to use. That's the least expensive bunk. So....around the horn by ...

... not a five star hotel. It has an amazing beauty&amp;spa-centre, but the price is also amazing: 22 &euro;. I was surprised to see that there were max. 10 guests in the whole hotel. Every evening two prostitutes were sitting in the entrance hall and wanted to...... I believe that Odessa is even more beautiful in summer when the whole city is green, but it´s worth a trip every season.

We had to take a trip out to Texas to visit our daughter. Always in Florida and being from up north, I could not wait to go visit Texas. Everyone kept telling me over and over again about the the dry heat. I had know idea what I was in store for until I experienced it myself. But something was bothering me. I felt bad about flying with everyone including ...

... to Romania for the Girana Jazz festival that I had been looking forward to every since I arrived in Romania and heard about it! I managed to hitch hike all the way to the capital (Sofia) of Bulgaria when I decided that instead crossing the Bulgarian/Romanian border that I'd throw a little adventure into the trip and try and hitch hike my way through Serbia to Romania. Well I made it all the way to Serbia via hitch hiking but as soon as I arrived in Serbia it ...

... my tail light bulb, which I did. Then it was off to the hotel. Then there was a night ride to the Permian BAsin Memorial, so, of course, I went. It was a little bit disappointing, because the lights were not working. However, they had an impromptu discussion, and seemed to really help some vets a lot. And a lot of FNG (new to the run) riders really seemed to get a lot out of it. Then back to the hotel - short night tonight for sure!

... through the natural entrance where the bats fly in and out. What an incredible place to see. We then drove towards Dallas TX and make it to Odessa TX to find our 2nd Letterbox at Comanche Park in Odessa. We drove to Midland had dinner and stayed in our first Walmart parking lot.

We took it easy today and caught our breath around the pool. Tonight we went to a Baseball game (the Midland Rockhounds - assisted by Rocky their mascot - beat the Wichita Wranglers) - it was great to see a game live and to soak up the atmosphere. We followed up this with a trip (in Jane's convertible) to a drive in movie where we saw Underdog. great movie - pity about the mosquitos !!!