An Overdue Update & Adios for This Blog!

Causeway Coastal Road views, North Ireland Hello all! I usually don't endorse blog-apologies, but I am sorry that I haven't been updating everyone with pictures and stories from the road. Without my computer for the past few months, I haven't found a lot of time to write entries or edit pictures....

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Soviet Sympathizers

Hey all, I wanted to share my most recent post about our time in St. Petersburg, Russia. Like I previously mentioned, I've posted it on my The Globetrotting Ginger site. Click here to check it out. Cheers from Tallinn, Estoni...

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News From Moscow

Hi all!I wanted to let everyone know that I'm going to start updating my blog via my travel site, The Globetrotting Ginger (www.theglobetrottingginger.com).My newest blog entry can be found by following this link:http://www.theglobetrottingginger.com/moscow/The site is a work in progress (understatement),...

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An Ode to Toes

For our second leg of the trip, I have one word: feet.After years of playing soccer with especially sweaty humans (teenage girls), I know the smell of feet. From a mile away. If that smell could be personified, then that stinky little character is trapped somewhere on a traincar in Siberia. Our last...

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"It's Russian Tradition!"

Before our initial embarkation on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, we stocked up on nuts and dried fruits, bread, meat and cheese (which I forgot in the hostel refrigerator...oops!), instant coffee, boiled garlic-and-dill potatoes (what else would you want to eat in an enclosed space?!), and cookies...

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