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From: filbo@deepthought.armory.com
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 22:33:04 -0700

[...] We spent all day yesterday in SF, succeeded in getting our Russian visas. Sandy's passport is being updated with her new name, will be picked up for us and sent back here. We bought our tickets to Russia: leave the 19th. $1192 for two one-way tickets. Will book other travel later -- trains out of Moscow and back. Current itinerary plan is something like:

• Moscow, May 20 - mid-Oct (teach English)
• Mid Oct: train to St. Petersburg;
  • ... Helsinki;
  • ... Stockholm;
  • ... Amsterdam;
  • ... Luxembourg;
  • ... London;
  • ... Prague;
  • ... Budapest;
  • ... Lublin;
  • ... Minsk;
  • ... back to Moscow;
• Mid Nov: trans-Siberian railway to Irkutsk;
  • trans-Mongolian railway, through Ulan-Bator, to Beijing;
  • wander around inside China for a while (not sure what/where) eventually ?mid-Dec? train to Hanoi;
  • and then to Ho Chi Minh City;
• HCMC, Mid-Dec - mid-May (teach English)
• Mid-May, fly back to USA

We'll probably end up skipping some of the cities in the whirlwind tour of Europe, so we can spend more time in the ones that strike us well.

>Bela<