We boarded our flight to India at around 9:00AM this morning in L’viv. We were let on the plane after a large group of special needs children boarded. I mumbled to Heather that when I registered this domain name, wackytravels.com, I hadn’t ever imagined travels this wacky.
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1 comment April 17th, 2007 Bob
We leave tomorrow morning for the second part of my expat journey. First we spend 2 hours on the flight to Frankfurt. If our plane lands on time we’ll have an hour to go through security, twice, on our switch from terminal 2 to terminal 1. Then we board a plane for our 8 hour journey to Bangalore, India. While here we’ll be visiting the city a little bit, searching for apartments slightly more and I’ll be interviewing engineering candidates for IronPort Bangalore the most.
On April 29th we return to Ukraine to live out the remaining ~24 days we have here. I think I can safely say that we’ll both miss this place; it’s awesome people and memorable scenery are hard not to love. This picture here is of Ivan and his wife; awesome people.
Add comment April 16th, 2007 Bob
This past Sunday Heather and I took advantage of the warm weather and toured the city, tourist style. Heather had her SF State sweater on and I my UCSC sweater. Two people correctly guessed, the first time, that they were better off speaking english to us than anything else.
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1 comment April 16th, 2007 Bob
While working here in Ukraine I’ve made it a goal of mine to teach these guys some english that they wouldn’t otherwise ever hear in their english lessons. Today Evgen let me know he found some krufty code by saying:
This crap be borked, yo
How awesome is that? 
4 comments April 3rd, 2007 Bob
After crossing the border into Poland we went to the train station in Przemysl. After boarding the train we watched through the window a group of friends try to sober up their friend that was too drunk to be allowed on. With no sound penetrating the train window you can see the gesture of “have some water” from a friend followed by the return slapping hand “Screw you, I’m not drrruunnkk” falling over gesture.
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Add comment April 2nd, 2007 Bob
On Friday morning Heather and I woke to my alarm at 5:00AM. At 5:30 AM Roman called to tell me my taxi was downstairs waiting for me. The taxi took us to Roman’s place where he was waiting outside, we all then rode to one of the main bus stations on the edge of town. Around 6:00AM we arrived at nearly the same moment as Alex and some of his friends. We were all headed to Katowice, Poland for Metal Mania! The ~2 hour bus ride to the border was followed by sitting at the border for nearly 6 hours. Those combined 8 hours were filled with moments that I hope will have you laughing as hard as I was.
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8 comments March 26th, 2007 Bob
Water is an interesting thing to talk about here. I haven’t figured out exactly why yet but depending on who you talk to the water is either plentiful and as pure as the purest water or scarce and filled with parasites.
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2 comments March 20th, 2007 Bob
As everyone now knows, I made it Ukraine safely, and with all FOUR of my checked bags, which is a miracle in and of itself. Unfortunately I had two explosions in my suitcase, one with my shampoo and the other with lotion, but luckily both had been double bagged ☺ Thank goodness for my paranoia of traveling with such items.
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2 comments March 19th, 2007 heather
Saturday morning began with Heather and I getting out of a bed a bit late. We ventured over to one of the many little stores (продукти – pronounced pro-dook-teh) that are in our neighborhood to get some fresh pastries for breakfast. From there I took Heather down for her first tour of the center.
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1 comment March 18th, 2007 Bob
Finally, my wife of 5 weeks, the woman I haven’t seen in 4 weeks, arrived on the ground here in Ukraine. All of her bags arrived on the same flight as her (amazing) and Ivan took us back to our apartment.
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4 comments March 15th, 2007 Bob
