Showing posts with label long bus rides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label long bus rides. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2007

Vilnius, Lithuania/CONTEST! PRIZES!

Hey all, we're checking in this morning from the basement computer room/kitchen of a hostel we've checked into in Vilnius, Lithuania. We just came off a nine hour bus ride from Warsaw, Poland. You see, we're trying to get to St. Petersburg, Russia. The problem is that the trains from Warsaw go through Belarus and Belarus is like the last Soviet-style throwback commie country and we have to have a visa to just ride a train through and it's a hassle. So we had to take the bus. We got in at about 8am this morning and as you can probably guess, you don't get very good sleep on the bus.
Anyway, we grabbed our stuff and went into the train station and we're booked for a train to St. Pete's at 6pm tomorrow. Our necks are very sore because all through the night, as one does when they're trying to sleep sitting up, our heads would slowly nod forward as we'd nod off and then jerk back abruptly. So I booked a sleeper for tomorrow.
That's about it for this post. We've got a couple days to check out Lithuania and then it's on to Mother Russia. We'll try and put some pictures up too.
To keep ya'll busy while we're gone we're going to start an essay contest. The best answer gets some sort of souviner from our travels.

We'll give you two possible subjects:
1. Why you miss BnD and can't wait for us to come home and hang out.
2. Why you're glad BnD are far away and why we should never come home.

Enjoy!