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Vadim Travels
Travel is a lot of fun. I strongly recommend it to everyone. There are
places you'll like and places you won't. People you enjoy traveling with
and folks that irritate you greatly. In the end, you'll be glad that you
went. The memories may fail in the details, but you'll seldom regret a
trip.
I guess since I was born and raised in Russia, but have lived most of
my life in the United States, I found the concept of travel pretty basic.
There is great joy in seeing new places, meeting new people, and experiencing
life in a way that is very unlike one's own, but just as valid for the
people that live it.
Here are the nations and other places I've traveled to or
lived in, roughly in order of visitation (without repeats):
- U.S.S.R. (Russia, Ukraine)
- Austria
- Italy
- New York
- Kentucky
- California
- Grand Canyon
- Colorado
- England
- Wales
- Ireland
- Scotland
- France
- Belgium
- Holland
- Germany
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Norway
- Switzerland
- Boston
- Connecticut
- Utah
- Arizona
- New Mexico
- Australia
- Mexico
- Hawaii
- My summer of 1998 trip around the
Mediterranean to:
- Isreal
- Turkey
- Greece
- Italy
- France
- Germany
- Spain
- Portugal
- London, England
- Calgary/Banff, Canada
- Vancouver/Whistler, Canada
- India (around Delhi and Culcutta)
- New Orleans (Mardi Gras!)
- Japan
- Vermont & New Hampshire (foliage)
- New England (driving trip)
- Bike tour of Provence, France
- Driving tour of Monterey,
Hearst Castle, Las Vegas, Death Valley, and Lake Tahoe
- Ecuador and the Galapagos
- Legoland, San Diego
- Austin (South by Southwest
2003)
- Russia (St. Petersburg's
300th)
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I will try to provide more details of the above trips later, but for
now, you can see my most recent adventures - a visit to
the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, a week in Hawaii,
or my summer of '98 trip around the
Mediterranean.
I have found that there are primarily two styles of travel - active and relaxed.
It is critical to travel with folks that want to use the
same style as you. I usually tend to like the active travel style,
on the cheap, and my least successful journeys have been with those
that don't share that style choice. If you go - make sure your travelmates
agree on how it is to be done.
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