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Originally Posted by Pinky678
Really? That's interesting. Yeah I know where is Tbilisi, Georgia near to Russia. The capital Tbilisi isn't close to Black Sea. Did you go there?? Can you tell me why you go there for?? I just curious.  I love go to Great Lakes! I live 1 half hours away from Lake Michigan. I live 1 half hours away from Lake Erie.
I didn't know about Ukraine is crime as Africa. My old psychologist's parent were born in Russia. He and his wife travel to Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg, Russia. He told me that Russian people really hate American. I am not surprise that! St. Petersburg and Moscow are crime of Mafia.
My old friend was born in Arkhangel'sk, Russia. It's Northeast close to Arctic Sea. I heard she is not live there anymore. She moved to South Russia. I haven't hear from her for long times. 
I have other my friends from church. Her native of Latvia. I ate a Latvian's dessert. It taste like low sugar. It's so delicious! I am interesting about Soviet Union.
I love to travel around the Europe in future! I want to touch 1,000 countries and cities before I die. |
Yes, I went to Tbilisi, Georgia before a couple of months Communism went down. You are correct that it is Tbilisi. I had a wonderful time there. We were on the train from near Moscow (???) to Tbilisi for one whole day. At that time, we were not allowed to photo them, and even at the train stations. I saw many beautiful places with a lot of mountains and perhaps rivers. I also went to the Black Sea, but I can't remember what city that I went. It could be Sochi.
Today, I had to look up on a Google map and was disappointed that there was no festival site on the mountain right near the city - especially the old fashion wheel rides. Some young Russians invited us to ride on the wheel, and we knew that it was not safe because we saw many rust poles, but it wasn't that bad. It was my pleasure to meet many deaf Russians, and we were able to understand and use our body language. I was surprised that our both deaf cultures with body language are better communication than Russian hearing people. Isn't that irony...
I joined with 30 NTID students and some staffs for the trip, and we wanted to learn their culture. We travelled many cities in Russia for two weeks. If you go to Russia, you should not drink water there. The staff drank the water, and she was very sick for 6 days, and half of her vacation was ruined. We had to drink sodas instead of water.
Some young Russian people love to see your $1.00 American dollars. I brought 20 of $1 for the kids, and they loved it. I also gave away two jeans because it was expensive there at the time. I have no idea how much it changed after the Communism's collapse. I gave many Hershey bars for the little kids. One man seriously begged me to give him my shoes, and I refused him. He tried to give me a lot of money. I can't do that because the security at the airport asked us to show our money before leaving the country. I was lucky that my friends helped me to get away from him. Whew! That was pretty scary.
Good luck with your 1,000 trips if possible!