{"id":7559,"date":"2017-06-13T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:56:02","slug":"travel-adventure-announcement-i-go-to-old-countrya-lot-of-them-html-d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2017\/06\/13\/travel-adventure-announcement-i-go-to-old-countrya-lot-of-them-html-d1\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Adventure Announcement! I Go To Old Country\u2026a lot of them"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u200bYay it\u2019s time for our big news! This summer (and some of the fall!), we are taking the incredible sabbatical trip that we\u2019ve been talking about for so long. For years now, we\u2019ve been planning this adventure (well, Husband has), and this summer \u2013 THIS FRIDAY! \u2013 we finally get to start it. You might have guessed by now that that epic google maps screenshot at the top of the page is a map of our route. Here it is again:<\/div>\n
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\u200bI knowww. For 3 \u00bd months, we are taking the Trans Mongolian Railway throughout Russia to Mongolia and China, and then traveling all around China and through the Silk Route and overland back to Western Europe. It\u2019s almost as crazy as how much stuff I\u2019m trying to cram into my backpack! Yes, we are backpacking, and staying at hostels (and lots of yurts in mountains!), which we haven\u2019t done in a long time (or ever in the case of mountain yurts alongside Mongol families) so it\u2019s an adventure in every way.<\/p>\n

This Friday, we fly to Helsinki, our last flight until the very end of September, and on Saturday we catch our first of many, many, so many trains, this one to Saint Petersburg, which means that that entire train ride I will be singing the following lyric from \u201cNatasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812\u201d, which is simultaneously impressive for the very high falsetto from Lucas Steele but also f-ing hilarious for the very high falsetto from Lucas Steele:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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