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Wednesday October 28, 2009



I was picked up promptly by my guide and driver this morning. I slept on the train very well but I'm still tired. My guide is a chatty fellow and while he is Ukrainian and Crimean, he is more Russian than anything and says everyone here speaks Russian even though they are supposed to...

I am now on a brief vacation in Crimea. So far I've been to Bakhchisarai, the ancient capital of the Crimean Tatars, and Yevpatoria, a beach resort community. Tomorrow I'm going to Sevastopol, where I'll see Chersonesus, some ancient Greek ruins. In case you're wondering, Crimea is a peninsula just barely attached to Ukraine that juts out into t...

Phillip Levi Salley is now officially our son. Court was about 15 minutes long. Tomorrow starts the official 10 day wait so we will be able to take custody of Phillip on December 6th. It will take a couple of days to get his passport and new birth certificate so we hope to be headed back to Kiev on December 8th. The train ride to Kiev is 15 hour...

Hello Everyone, Today was the first snow of the season here in prehistoric Simferopol. I'm writing this from an internet cafe because we can't establish a connection on our computer. We saw Sasha this morning and he is happy as a clam. He is asking when we are taking him home. He is very excited about riding in a car and chasing the dogs. I don'...

Yes still here...this time I'm writing from Crimea, south of Ukraine on the black sea so far we have done 3.500 kms...we have been in Rivne, Kiev, Yalta and dozen of other places...too many to list, small villages are so cool and people are even more friendly, everything looks so Russian, so soviet! Our worst enemy as expected is the police, we ...

This train ride is 650 miles and takes about 15-20 hours. We will have a sleeper cabin and will hopefully sleep throughout the majority of the trip. We will be 3 people per room. There are public bathroom facilities and they are not operational when the train is slowing down to stop or when we are stopped at a city!