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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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$30 per month pension plus some vegetables which she grow at nearby village. When I came she was not at home and I left the message saying that I am at Golden Ring Trip and will be back to Moscow next day. I did not leave any address because I did not know which hotel I will stay in. A couple days later she called me in my room in Leningradskaya Hotel. How did she found me? She did not tell. I can only guess. Every person arriving in Moscow, St Petersburg or any other Russian cities have to be registered with police. My hotel did my registration for me. There is no agency to which you can came and ask to locate somebody who came in Moscow. It is traditionally domain of KGB, now FSB and police. I can only guess that my friend, a usual Russian way, know somebody, who know somebody, who know somebody, who know somebody who work in this organisation. Imagine the task to find somebody who came to New York and stay in hotel, you do not know which. Combined force of FBI and CIA will not help.

Alex Mumzhiu
Odessa Ykraina
Aug 30 2001
10:30pm

PS TomorroW I will go by train to Krimea penensula

My dear friends and subscribers, I decided to continue my trip. It was a difficult decision. Even while the President Bush asked us to continue to live the normal life, I would feel uncomfortable in such times to do something what can be classified as a leisure or pleasure. When you feel out custom forms during the borders crossing, all travels classified as a travel for business or a travel for pleasure. This classification always irritates me. My travels are not pleasure travel. They are more like travels of my friends, long distance bikers about whom I wrote to you before. One was arrested and expelled by Burmanize military authorities while exploring this semi closed country, another undertake incredible bike ride (veloprobeg) across Euro-Asian continent from Hong Kong to his native London, third took his bike to the trip ...