Build this on the point:
I’ve been to Russia twice, the last time being 2005. Moscow twice and once took the 26 hour train ride from Moscow to Ufa where my X wife was from. One day while boarding the Metro in Moscow, the door opened and young man was laying passed out on the floor just inside the door with a couple bottles of Vodka rolling around the floor next to him . Not one person checked on him to see if he was ok, everyone just walked over him like he wasn’t there.
No one checked on him, however one man took the one half drank Vodka bottle that was rolling around with him when he departed the subway.
Me in Red Square in March 2003 holding my Coke from McDonalds. I had plenty of Vodka in my time there, but on this day, it was only a Coke.
I really want to see Russia, but I never had the opportunity.
So this box will also bring you to the point
I am glad I went, but never had the urge to go back. I went in the winter months because the plane tickets were so much cheaper (for obvious reasons). I have been pretty fortunate traveling getting to see a lot of the world. I have been to Hawaii, Bahamas, Canada, Russia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines, where I currently live. My father drove a truck and has been in all 48 mainland US states, but I think I have only been in maybe a third of them.
I love the Philippines, but hate the way they drive, and I really miss Walmart and self checkout.
You have so many stories, you could write a book
Most of my stories are based on my life’s bad decisions, so it would be a book on “what not to do”. I should have never married the Russian lady, which would have eliminated my ever going to Russia. However, we have a 19 year old son, so I got something good from it.
I need to go try out some Hash brownies. I just remembered this scene from Eurotrip.
We have that for breakfast here
Im Polish and I would like to say the same about Iran, good people
yes, those were difficult times. especially for the regions. I still remember how in front of the Novosibirsk railway station there was a tent market.
now a lot has changed for the better.
I know I froze my ass off on that train from Moscow to Ufa when I was trying to sleep as the train windows seemed to let all the cold air in. When you flushed the toilet on that train, it just opened a little door under the toilet so it all dropped on the train tracks, then they locked the bathroom doors about 10 minutes or so before you got to a city.
My first trip was March 2003 and last was January 2005. To be honest, it was warmer in Moscow in January then it was in March when I was there…But it was still cold.
I had a friend who was married to a Russian women, I think she might have been from Novosibirsk, but I’m not 100%. He passed away about a year ago and she lives in the US.