Love at First Layover

  6 Ways to tell Summer has come to the Venice of the North   The topols start flying ! The first really hot day in St. Petersburg, I not...

It has been almost 2 weeks since Kaley and I returned from our trip to Georgia. I have finally decompressed enough to be able to write about...

I awoke to the smell of sausages. Last time I rode platzkart it was mid-August,  and I was going from Moscow-St Petersburg. The train in...

So this blog post doesn't have a special topic, just an update on my life and how I'm doing! A few people have expressed some conc...

I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression- you can find almost anything in Saint Petersburg or Moscow that you can in the United...

March 8 was International Women's Day ! A wonderful holiday celebrated largely in the former USSR and parts of Asia and Africa. Women...

I started a "note" on my phone the first week I was here, just to write down random, interesting things that happen to me while I...