tsar_ronin

"Better to burn out than to rust out"

Tsar Ronin

98 / Male

The Big D, Texas, USA

About tsar_ronin

Member since 22nd May 09

Citizenship: USA
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Teacher
About tsar_ronin:

Just a squirrel trying to get a nut

Hobbies:

I got 'em, but I am too lazy to do 'em.

Favourite places:

Furasto Onsen in Kagoshima, Japan. My ass is in Texas, but my heart is in Kyushu.

Activity : photos (3) forum (0) guide (0) blog (1) diary (0) trips (1)

Latest Blog Entry

Promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep . . .

Posted by tsar_ronin | 30th May 2009

Well the tickets have been bought and the visas have been secured. All that lies between me and going back to Russia is about 30 days. It will be my first trip back since I came home as a lowly exchange student in college. I can't believe it has been fourteen years. Where does the time go?

In Paris, just outside the Cathedral of Notre Dame, there is a marker. It is the starting point or "zero" point of measuring the kilometers on French highways. The French say that if you visit this spot, then you are destined to one day return to Paris. I wonder if there is such a spot in Moscow, and did I visit it back in '95? I saw a lot of things there, but none stick out so much as the body of Lenin, the tomb of Stalin, and the tomb of Yuri Gagarin.

Back in '95, my excursion to Russia was my first time to leave the United States. On that day I left JFK, I landed in Frankfurt, Germany before going on to Moscow. When I got there, I

Continued | The Roaming Ronin

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The Roaming Ronin - Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, “Holy Shit! What a ride!”