Our next adventure, Eastern Europe! We’ll spend nearly 3 weeks traveling from Kiev and Odessa in Ukraine, to Istanbul, Turkey to Bucharest, Romania and a neat side trip to Transylvania, and end with a return visit to Kiev. This has been a trip we’ve talked about taking since leaving Viet Nam some 14 years ago. The friends and colleagues we made and had in Hanoi opened us up to a part of the world we had little knowledge of. Be it the gracious dinners with numerous toasts, or the open arms and the “what can I do to help you” attitude whenever we met, Allane and I made wonderful and, now we know, lifelong friends from such places as Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. To be able to visit these friends in their homes and nations is something that we feel very lucky to be able to do. Next stop, Kiev!
Steve and Al 