October 11, 2013
Sapporo, Japan to Petropavlosk, Russia (1,051 NM)
Petropavlosk is the largest city in Far East Russia. Surrounded by beautiful and active volcanos. Deep, non-frozen harbor made it one of the strategic military harbors of Russia. People seem reluctant to give a polite acknologement to visitors. It is like " I do not speak your language, don't bother me". Which is fine. Boundry respected.
This city develops in fast pace and people are getting richer. Infrastructure is still in the 70's if not 60's. Still good growing opportunities. Airport used to be military. Coldwar marks everywhere. Old and scrapped Mig-Fighters scattered around airport, wow! Picture taking not allowed but we still manage to take a few, Hush!
Buses around streets are mosted retired old Korean buses. Kind of unexpected. No McDonald's. We had dinner at a new hamburger place. Clean and good. Street vendors have good supplies of merchandises. October is very cold already, I had to cut short of my walk.
Tomorrow, we will fly back to U.S.....
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