"Passage to Kamchatka".....................

Do you speak Japanese? How about Russian?

I think I need to learn a few words in both these 

languages, and fast. Perhaps "hello", "please", 

"thank you", "goodbye"....and of course "how much?".

I'll soon be off again, traveling with Paula on 

another adventure to parts of the world I'd never 

even heard of, let alone expected to see!

Flying from San Francisco to Tokyo. A day of sightseeing, 

a night to rest, and then riding the high-speed bullet train 

to Niigata. There we'll be boarding an expedition ship 

with another 80 passengers and sailing from Japan to 

the Russian Far East. 

We'll explore the isolated Kuril Islands and the remote 

Kamchatka Peninsula, often on Zodiacs, following the 

Pacific Ring of Fire. 

After this remarkable voyage, we'll fly nine hours across 

Siberia to Moscow for a couple of days of city sightseeing 

before heading home.

Hope you'll follow along on this one......should be very interesting, not many tourists are permitted to this area of Russia, and acquiring the necessary visa has been hell very difficult, quite stressful, and very expensive!

I'll be leaving in couple of weeks so this week means picking out what to take, and starting on the packing again....see you back here when time permits!