Tag: russia
member name: Verie Sandborg
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March 11, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Getting a busy signal again, I hung up the phone. It was a mid March day in the early 1980s, and I had been trying all evening to call my father long distance at his retirement residence in Michigan to . . .
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April 29, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, which aired on April 17 on the Sundance channel, confronts the U.S. denial of an emerging oil crisis and our inadequate energy policies and technologies. It pulls . . .
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August 15, 2005 09:14 PM EDT --
April 8, 2004. Ten pounds lighter than at the first of the year and feeling less pain than I have had in two years, I'm ready for a week's tour of Russia with my daughter Pam. In January, an MRI showed . . .
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August 15, 2005 09:13 PM EDT --
April 10, 2004. Since we’re ready at 5:30 AM due to our alarm accidentally being set two hours early, Pam and I have plenty of time to get our luggage out for pick-up. The birds begin singing at . . .
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August 15, 2005 09:09 PM EDT --
April 12, 2004. Today we go to two palaces on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. As we drive out of the city, I note a stop sign in English. Our tour guide Nadia tells us a Russian proverb that rings true. . . .
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August 15, 2005 09:10 PM EDT --
April 11, 2004. Having slept well after the loud music below our room stopped around 12:30 AM, Pam and I wake up to Easter Sunday in St. Petersburg. Although in most years the Russian Orthodox Easter falls . . .
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August 15, 2005 09:08 PM EDT --
April 13, 2004. Today will be a long day. We are to spend a full day and evening touring St. Petersburg and then at about 11 PM, we will board an overnight train for Moscow. Expecting the train's "first . . .
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October 30, 2005 03:50 PM EST --
April 15, 2004. It's a dreary, drizzly cold day. Our schedule for the day takes us outside Moscow to the Golden Ring cities of Vladimir and Suzdal. The Golden Ring is a circle of very old towns northeast . . .
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October 16, 2005 06:38 PM EDT --
April 14, 2004. The train we've taken from St. Petersburg is scheduled to arrive in Moscow about 6:25 AM. Around 5:45 AM, I begin hearing people moving about the train corridor and in the cabins next to . . .
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November 16, 2005 07:14 PM EST --
Chapters I-V posted 8/15/05
Chapter VI posted 10/16/05
Chapter VII posted 10/30/05
April 16, 2004. Today is our last day of touring on the trip, and it's a busy one. The morning takes us to Victory . . .
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