Beijing, China to St. Petersburg, Russia. On a train. The 'Tran-Siberian Railway'. 8505 kilometers of views. Five weeks across China and Mongolia and Russia. From Asia to Europe. Now that's quite an adventure. And for us it began June 6 as we flew out of Mumbai, on our way to Beijing. Us? Us is four teachers from my school, the American School of Bombay. Katie, Lynn, Deb and myself. And we plan to join up with a former teaching peer in Irkutsk in Siberia. Vania. She currently teaches in Moscow. First, I gave silent thanks as I crossed over that point in Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport where I crossed Indian Immigration, had my passport stamped and was legal to leave. No visa issues! No three and a half week long wait, stuck in India, to
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