Just some photos and a single thought with a cup of delicious coffee… Driving home I noticed new factories and new warehouses everywhere. Very new and mostly Germany and France. But one American company stood out as I have talked for many posts about, John Deere and we saw the gigantic new factory and I […]
Boza and I got up early in the morning and found ourselves lost as we tried to get organized to go out and walk. It took me several seconds to understand that I had to find my way around new obstacles and get dressed with clothes that I have not seen or wore for a […]
Suhari is basically any type of bread dried. I am using this word to describe what I love to buy and travel on the road. It is tough, crunchy and delicious. It can be bought in many different flavors, with raisins and with nuts at about any store in Russia. But we are talking about […]
A few weeks ago I told you all that autumn was here. The tree leaves were turning and pumpkins were everywhere. Frost was on the ground every morning and the weather was perfect, but two days ago, Old Man Winter woke from his summer siesta and decided enough is enough and winter is ready to […]
Hares hop turnstiles – but not for long? Things are turning in great style in Moscow. But do you know what? They’re thinking of getting rid of the turnstile on public transport.Read More >>> This is a great article above and I had to laugh when I read it. In fact I ended up reading […]
“Soon there will be no one who remembers when spaceflight was still a dream, the reverie of reclusive boys and the vision of a handful of men. Most of those who met in ardent little groups in small cafe between the world wars, planning voyages to the moon and planets that they never hoped to […]
Who in the world is Barack Obama to claim that “No God” would allow the Islamic State to exist and slaughter what it considers to be non-believers? His statement follows the same line of transgression committed by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in their baleful appeals to God and Christ, even as they approved […]
An actual 1953 photo of a test of a nuclear artillery projectile at the Nevada Test Site (photo depicts an artillery piece with a 280 mm bore (11 inch), and the explosion of its artillery shell at a distance of 10 km (6.2 mi))… Nuclear artillery is a subset of limited-yield tactical nuclear weapons, in particular those […]
Most people in the west do not realize how much “capability,” Russia really has; largest land mass, a population of 140 million+, for the most part very patriotic, (spare me the false democracy bull and allowing 2% of the population to be a majority of citizens, of dissent here and there). They have unlimited natural […]
Last night, just as it got almost pitch-black, Boza and I came upon a creature that was a big as Boza and stood on his back legs and tried to start a fight with us. Boza froze and until I could see what it was we were up against, my trusty walking stick held the […]