Tuesday, June 5, 2012

We Get Around . . . .


We hear a lot of Russian language as we travel, both with and without headsets.
Traveling is more fun with a lot of white shirts.
Board 5:30 am.  Travel 4 hours.  Attend District conference.  Board and return.
Most dependable and common way to travel.
Everything and everybody -- transported by rail.
Train stations don't post 'wet paint' signs on their benches.
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Bus tickets, Lugansk to Kharkov, места (seat) #44 & #45.
This stoic old Russian is waiting for the sun to come up and the train to arrive.
       
More stoic old Russian conversing robustly.  Everything is transported in  'Babushka' bags.
On the days when the bus gets stuck, and then the ten-wheeler pulling the snow grater that got stuck pulling the bus gets stuck, no one travels anywhere. 
Close quarters...many smells...most not so good.
The funnest way to travel!  

The fastest way. 

The messiest way.

3 comments:

  1. Traveling. I prefer the security of home. Traveling can be so draining.

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  2. I've written comments to your blog many times, but I am always in a hurry so I forget to wait for that letter/number verification thingy so I go to the next post of yours and you don't have any comment from me on the last one so I have to do it again . . . whew!
    But I like pictures of white shirts traveling in a cluster! I like this post talking about all the ways to travel! sounds tiresome to walk, but still, you're right, dependable. I am not sure what I think of traveling by train. That first stoic Russian looks a bit familiar! It looks as though no one got wet paint on their bottoms, so that's good, right? a couple blue stripes on the pants to show where they've been! Those pictures look cold like Dr. Zhivago . . . just gives me the same feel. But there's a picture of a pretty lady with a scarf there! Mom, will you integrate scarves more into your wardrobe when you get home for wintery months? was the funnest way to travel nostalgic? you look happiest in the pic of the fastest way to travel . . . was that coincidental or telling? Is all that mud and muck always there or just a springtime thing?
    whew . . . traveling! so glad I don't do it so much as you guys!

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