A Trip Around the World, Part 5

[caption id="attachment_2631" align="alignright" width="300"] Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow[/caption] Tomorrow morning, if all goes well, my friend Chris and I arrive in Paris, and our long train journey from Vladivostok will be over. We’ve been pretty fortunate on this trip: almost everything has gone well. We’ve stayed healthy; Chris and I are still fast friends after being together night and day for 11 days and over 8300 miles; and even the weather has cooperated, gifting us with mild temperatures and pretty skies whenever we actually had to be outdoors. But yesterday we were in Moscow, and it was without a doubt the low point of our trip. ...