Best Eastern Odessa Hotel

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.

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 ...

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I don't remember much about this trip other than what I already wrote in the description. It was hot. I got sunburned. There were dogs. There was a kayak team. We took a train and traveled in a sleeper car. But it was a good old soviet sleeper car that had no private compartments, but about twenty bunks (or so) in ...

... me two hours to get one ride which was only like 10km and since I was on a time budget I decided to bus it through Serbia. Well I took a bus to the capital (Belgrade) which put me there at 5am where i then took a bus out of town to try hitch hiking again. Well it didn't exactly work too well and so i just took another bus to the border, changed buses again and headed towards Romania. This is the bus trip that would prove to be an interesting adventure however ...

This morning, we started out at the Las Cruces Veterans Memorial Park for a Wreath Laying. This is a beautiful park. My cousin, Russell Platt's name is on the wall - he was killed in Vietnam, and was living in Las Cruces when he was deployed. During the ceremonies, the weather turned ugly again - looks like another rainy day. It rained off and on, but not too hard. During the day, 'New York' told me that my tail light was out - I had ...

... 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 !!!

... which was well used until the rain came. We love the rain over here as it doesn't last too long and keeps the temperature down to a manageable 30 - 35 degrees C. Despite the fact that the 10 year drought has now officially ended I get the feeeling sometimes that (as in Ireland) the locals have had enough of the rain. Met some of Kevin's rugby teammates - Thurs is a training night but there seemed to be a number of MadDogs hanging out around THE bar during training !!