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... 3 hours, uploading pictures and doing research on Russian, writing out phrases and useful words we could need. We decided to print out a copy of the alphabet, with all their translations, and always have that in our wallets. We will survive for the next month.
The money we paid for first class seemed well spent as we slept like babies in our private cabin, arriving around mid-day to Simferopol train station, rested and ready for the 30 degrees in the shade.

... adjusting to become more GREEN. I wanted to feel good about traveling. So I came across RezHub.com and while I was out traveling, taking care of personal issues and having fun I knew my money was donated to a Green Organization. There is a brand new travel website that I found called RezHub.com. What I like about RezHub.com is when you book through them you ...

... of you eat fast food, then all condiments are extra. What is an American condiment lover to do?? Anyway, back to the resturant. We finally get our food after they go and kill it and then the part that REALLY irks me starts. They forget about you. Literally. Food is gone and plates are taken away and you just sit there. The idea, I am sure, is for you to just sit, relax and enjoy your company, but I am used to having ...

... i went to the woods across the highway and set up my tent to sleep for the night. I set it up JUST IN TIME as it started to downpour like mad crazy and it rained and rained and rained alll night long. When I woke up I saw the river that I was camping next to and it was raging!!! This thing was darker than chocolate milk and was wild!! Later I found out that heavy storms in this area of the country had caused this river to flood many towns in this region....oops I ...

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 ...

We awoke to a flat rear tire, we slowly drove to Carlsbad to get it fixed. It turned out to be a cracked valve stem only $10 to fix. Then off to Carlsbad Caverns to walk down into the cave enter ace. I remember visiting the Caverns when I was 9 & 16. This time we walked ...

... super Russian boy" and took us to a few places, one called EXIT and the other called Captain Morgan's. All in all a good birthday. Caviar was eaten and vodka was drunk. Now looking for a place to get a pedicure, as I wanted that for my b'day yesterday and couldn't find one. As we have computer access here in the flat, I'll probably post again before we leave on the cruise ship for Istanbul on Saturday night.

... thing that Cartier-Bresson so wonderfully expresses: the "simplicity of expression". I don't want to bore you with this "simplicity" talk. But - you know - we are travelling together. And on a travel you have more time to speak about life than during your daily work. I personally believe that many people love to travel because on the way they find exactly that time of meditating ...

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 !!!

Left Vegas this morning - still wearing our shirts !! I forgot to say that I went to a poker room on Monday to see what was going on but a row developed between two players over the rules and so I was not going back there in a hurry - probably just as well !! I'll stick to friendly Texas Holdem games from now on. Kevin picked us up in Midland this afternoon and took us to THE Bar in Midland - oneof his haunts. It was a really friendly place with great food and a patio ...