Preparing for Russia

Hello friends, I am back again.  As you know I don't blog if I have to pay for internet while traveling.  On river cruises the internet is free so you will soon be getting posts from Russia.  I have long wanted to visit Moscow.  As a child during the Cold War my Dad had a chance to work there for United Press International.  He was excited about the opportunity but when he found out he needed to arrange for folks back home to send tires for the car if he was able to get one, and oranges for 'the children' he decided it was maybe not the best choice.  Now-a-days I think the decision would have been different.  With the ease of international air travel and the value of Skype he might have gone on his own and kept in touch nightly or flown home frequently.  And of course, he like the rest of my family, did not like cold weather!  That alone might have been a deciding factor.  But he did like adventure and seeing new places and the extra money he would have brought home.

I now need to practice and see if I can work within the new parameters of the revised Blogger site. Let me practice by posting a picture of my dad. 

I don't have one of my dad on this computer and would scan one in but the photo albums are currently at my brother's home.  So this is my brother Doug and me and in truth when the opportunity for Moscow came up we would have been about 7 or 8 years older!  But thanks for feedback on this new trial post.