I had a fantastic time! A four month adventure, travelling through twelve countries over 7000 miles and meeting many women along the way.
The two months in Russia were a highlight. Russian women were all I had heard about and more. Warm, passionate, educated, strong, beautiful, young, affectionate, with traditional values. I found love and friendships and was so impressed that when my 28 day visa ran out, I nipped across to Estonia to renew it.
The van was a great idea and made the trip more adventurous. The mode of travel was inspired by Steinbeck's book 'Travels with Charley'.
I used Fiance, AFA and several other agencies on the ground since I wanted to make sure the women were 'live'. I found that having the agency arrange the meeting was better than just buying telephone numbers for 2 reasons. 1. They may be out of the city. 2. They may not speak English well enough.
I met three women through interpretors and this was very successful. I could relax rather than wrestle with language.
Many Russian men do not respect women and I came to believe that most of the ladies are genuine. There are more women than men. So men are irresponsible, spoilt, drink too much, can be aggressive to their partners, suffer high unemployment and there are just a lot more high quality woman and low quality men.
One other point. I had thought the most beautiful women in the agencies would not be interested in me since I am not from the land of plenty. However, they seem to prefer men within Europe... at least that is what they told me.
I have much more to tell about Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Poland and Czechoslovakia as well as Russia but will hold my water. Very busy catching up with work etc..
Hey QC, Glad to see you made it back alive. Haven't heard from you in so long that I thought you were...ah..dead. Tell us more about your unique trip. What a way to travel.As it being I only get off for a maximum of two weeks a year, I was wondering if I could accomplish the same thing if I drove really fast!
hey charm guy,
lets get back to your original post and i am going to give you some advice you better listen to. my very close friend from kyiv oksana works for an adoption agency and is hired to protect american couples and take them through the whole adoption procedure which can take several weeks . sometimes they have to travel between ukrainian cities to get to different orphanages and it can get like james bond being pursued. no shit. first they have to secure a man who has a reputation as one who knows the roads and who knows how to professionally evade a possible consequence. second she has told me of several occasions where places they have stopped to get fuel or such people in the country called ahead to let their fellow thugs know american people were in the country on a designated route .she then told me through her 15 years of this occupation that a car would pull up next to them and try to force them to stop by making them veer into a car that was stopped and blocking the only lane of traffic at nite waiting to make a hit!!! if it was not for their skilled driver, who knows what would have happened. needless to say they were all scared shitless. several ukrainians have told me that they covet their cities because they are very safe and that is well known. it is the country sides that are dangerous . everyone i know there says you have to be plain nuts to take a chance like what you want to do.you guys may find humor in this but this is what ukraimians tell me. i think they know their land a little better than we do. every travel agency and every website who handles travels say never go into the country unless you have a hired respected driver or you are on a first class bus or train. god bless you. good luck and go spread the love man.
jmoluv
I work with a Ukrainian and he told me the same as JMO. Some of the things he said were like out of the old west. I have to bow to his authority as he lived there. Anyway it looks like you did it and not only survived but had a good time. I did similar stuff in the early 80s in latin america and people told me the same things. Still went though and I am glad I did. Yes there was the odd scary moment involving what looked like freelance police/military or similar wielding machineguns pointed at me but overall it wasn't that bad. I am not advocating this though it is freaking dangerous.