Dates Traveled: December 2009 / January 2010
Odessa – December, 2009
We actually found ourselves in the Ukraine on a couple of occasions over two months – and two years. Our first foray into Odessa was in December, and was the culmination of an 18-hour bus ride from Varna, Bulgaria. It was another inauspicious, and unwelcoming, entry […]
Dates Traveled: December 2009 - January 2010
Brazov and Daytrips
We caught the bus from Chisinau, Moldova, to Brazov, Romania, arriving after dark and without any local currency. I’m too accustomed to traveling in countries where you can do a black-market money exchange with dodgy dudes at borders, haggling for a better exchange rate. I keep forgetting […]
Dates Traveled: December 2009
Transdniestr
So, first things first - how did Rhona and I end up in a breakaway republic? One only recognized by two other entities – themselves breakaway republics? A ‘country’ that you’ve probably never even heard of? It started innocently enough - I was looking at my family tree.
The Voegele’s originally came from […]
Dates Traveled: November-December 2009
Hmmmm - where does one start when the last update they wrote was 7 1/2 months prior? I suppose it wouldn’t be as daunting if we hadn’t done much, but Rhona and I spent more than 6 of those months traveling. No, this isn’t going to be easy, which I suppose is […]
Dates Traveled: September 2009
This past break illustrated how spoiled Rhona and I are when it comes to the time we have to travel. I only had a 5-week break rather than my standard 6. I finished work on August 26, flew from Hammerfest, Norway, on the 27th, and arrived in Kashgar, China on the 28th. […]
