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My dear readers,<br /><br />Today, I am going to my trip from Tunisia to Russia. These who read my story from previous trip: Silk Road, may remember that I was motivated on it by a childhood dream about Takla-Makan Desert. On trip before that to Himalayas I was motivated by my mountaineering youth. This coming trip is also not without motivation. I want to go through the most luxurious places in Europe, such as French and Italian Riviera, the backpacker way (bosiatskim sposobom). Why the backpacker way? Because these places are very expensive and also because I do not like to travel the civilized way. I am motivated to this trip by two great Russian Travelers Romanych http://romanycz.travel.ru/ and Yuri Mossokovsky http://mosspower.w-city.net.ua Last one took a bold task to prove that the ordinary Russian citizen can afford to travel to Western Europe on a bike. He proved it, but lost 20 lb. on the way. I am going to prove that the ordinary American Social Seniority recipient can travel through Rivieras too. And I do not mind to lose weight ever.

From Tunisia to Russia (part I)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 13:17:21

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temple in Delhi. They believe that there are no different Gods for different people, that there is only one God, but he appears to people of different nationalities in different forms, I like this approach.

My thought was about so many people whom I know and who are better people than I am and who live in misery. I thought about my co-students from Leningrad Technological Institute (Lensoveta) who are mostly in retirement now and surviving on miserable pensions of 40 dollars per month, and I think about many other people who cannot live the life they like because of money, time or health problems. While I was not a good student in school or in college, probably because I was not so clever, I should admit that I was lucky during my entire life. There is a Russian saying: "Ne rodis bogatim, ne rodis krasivim a rodis scastlivim", don't be born wealthy, don't be born handsome, but be born lucky. I am married to a girl I love, but married herfictitiously because we hadn't gone out before at all.Well, this is a long story. However we are married already for 35 years and have 2 children. When I came to America, it was a recession and everybody around got fired, but I found a job, and my first job title was a principal engineer. And there have been many other examples like this during my life. And now I travel the world as I always dreamed about. I am not superstitious to say this, because most active part of life is behind, I was laid off exactly 4 years ago and did not work since, and my children are grown up.

Soon I will have my 65 birthday and I am inviting all of you for an Internet birthday party. Watch for advertisement.

Alex Mumzhiu
Siracusa Italy
Apr 12 2002 8 pm

PS: I just get an information that the synagogue, the picture of which I sent you from Tunis, one of major Jerba Island tourist attraction was bombed: http://www.usatoday.com/aponline/2002041118/2002041118244700.htm No doubt in ...