Saturday, July 26, 2008
Fly in the Concorde
NYC to London (round trip) in 1997. I went to England for 24 hours to see my friends run in a track meet. Dad took me on a free companion ticket because I missed England so much when we moved to America in 1996.
Visit Russia
15-29 May, 2002.
Moscow & St. Petersburg.
I had drinking chocolate every morning, snuck out while my father was napping to ride the metros alone, ate rum raisin ice cream for the first time (8 cents!), met Cossacks, went to a chocolate factory, saw an opera in Russian in an old palace, ate lots of borscht and saw Russian high school graduation.
My father knew a women there from his days in business so she took us to some of the sights in St. Petersburg. She was raised in Soviet Russia so her perspective on civil society was markedly different from our own - it was an eye opener to see the generation that was disenfranchised when capitalism appeared there.
Moscow & St. Petersburg.
I had drinking chocolate every morning, snuck out while my father was napping to ride the metros alone, ate rum raisin ice cream for the first time (8 cents!), met Cossacks, went to a chocolate factory, saw an opera in Russian in an old palace, ate lots of borscht and saw Russian high school graduation.
My father knew a women there from his days in business so she took us to some of the sights in St. Petersburg. She was raised in Soviet Russia so her perspective on civil society was markedly different from our own - it was an eye opener to see the generation that was disenfranchised when capitalism appeared there.
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