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Chisinau: Homemade Home

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Setting off from Hong Kong in Aug 1992, 2 days after turning 22, I traveled China, Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, returning to Hong Kong in July 1993. Apart from Athens/Cairo, I never set foot on an airplane during this year-long walkabout. Before the days of digital cameras, internet, and mobile phones, this solo adventure was as much a discovery of myself as it was about these 31 countries. Many of them, like me, have long since changed.

Chisinau: Homemade Home

I finally procure a train ticket to Kishinev from someone who knows what they are doing.  On the train I meet a man who is traveling home to Kishinev.  He invites me over to meet his family.  One floor of his house is still under construction and he boasts that he's building it himself.  I can tell.  One of the walls is slightly askew and many of the morter joints look like they might give.  Neverthess, I can't help but be impressed by the effort.  We take the obligatory photo shoot with his lovely family and then I'm off again back to the train station for the overnight to Kiev and on to Moscow. 
47,916 km (29,774 miles) traveled
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