And we're off!

So we're a third of the way to Moscow, hanging out at Jfk.
Interestingly, the ticketing folks were only (in Sf and jfk) interested in whether I had my visa, apparently Asa passes for russian (cue all bad jokes related to everyone looking the same).

Our itinerary for the next 3 weeks:
3 days in Moscow
4 days in st Petersburg
2 days in Berlin
3 days in Prague
2 days in krakow
2 days in Budapest
4 days in istanbul
though we're pretty much flexible once we get to Prague.

I'll spend the next 10 hours learning Russian on my iPod :-)