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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 II)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 13:32:47

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From there I will return to St Petersburg for my return flight to Washington July 15. If something will go wrong I will skip any part of my planned trip and return to St. Petersburg earlier. I will appreshiate any information on above countries, you may have. Please write me if you have any.

Alex Mumzhiu
Istanbule Turkey
May 20 2002 8:30 pm
PS. I do not know if there are Internet cafes in places I go.

My dear readers,

I am very pleased with your response. Today I received 19 letters. You know, I really need your response because sending E Mails with the pictures is not easy. Not many Internet cafes have scanners, many are turkey-ized, itallized, sinized, many have stupid user friendly shells. So if I do not receive responses for a while, I start to think, why should I go through all this trouble if nobody needs my TN.

I will answer now some questions having common interest. About two months ago Yahoo limited the amount of outgoing E Mails by about 100 in 24 hours, I guess. Then, I asked several people to forward my notes to others. I learned that some people fell through the cracks. So those who forward my E mails to others please forward a copy of it to me also. These who receive my E Mails through a re-sender can reply directly to me at mumzhiu@yahoo.com. You do not have to reply through re-senders.

Tomorrow I will go to Batumi, Georgia on bike/minibus combination. From Batumi I will go to Tbilisi, then to Yerevan, Armenia, back to Tbilisi and then to Baku, Aserbaijan. Then across the Caspian sea to Central Asia. I am very exited about this trip, I dreamed about thys tryp since high school. I think I will be in Baku about June 4 or 5. As I wrote before I invite all of you to my virtual birthday party June 6. Exact time will be sent to you on June 4 or 5, BYOB (bring you own bottle).

Alex Mumzhiu
Trabzon, Turkey
May 22 2002
11 50 pm

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