This is the first post about the longest trip of my life so far, which started on July 27th 2020 and ended on August 31st 2020, for a total of thirty-five days. I went by train across the largest country in the world, to Russia's Far East on the Pacific Ocean, and back. I logged many hours of train travel, and got the true experience of traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway- not the glamourous version many imagine. I traveled in 'platzkart,' third class, with the common people of Russia. I saw so much of this magnificent country, and this blog will help me to process much of it. Each blog post will be about a different section of my trip, based on a certain timeframe of my trip or about a region visited. The Amur River This post is about the beginning of my journey, the train ride to Russia's Far East, to Vladivostok, capital of Primorsky Krai. The decision to go to Vladivostok was made on a whim; for me, there is nothing unusual about that. I had all ...