Suffering in Silence

Don't let the title of this blog entry scare you. It's from a magazine article about the Trans-Siberian Railway. This particular portion of the article was talking about the bathrooms on the trains and how they are closed when the train is stopped at a station (since flushing the toilet is essentially opening a hole to the ground. The quote was something to the effect of "memorize the schedule or suffer in silence."

That is one of the many things we have to look forward to in the next six and a half days. We leave tonight at 9:30pm and are scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 2:30pm on Monday. Getting to the train station tonight ought to be an interesting experience as we each have our backpacks, smaller day bags and also have a large duffel bag full of food. Shopping last night for food for our journey it really sort of hit me that we will be on the train for a week. Elizabeth was quick to point out that it isn't a full week because we will be arriving at 2:30, plus there is a five hour time difference between Moscow and Beijing. So we'll be on the train for six days and 12 hours. I'm still going to call it a week.

Since we will be on the train we will not be posting on the blog in that time, so you'll have to wait a whole week to hear from us again. My how things have changed that not hearing from someone overseas for a week is a long time! I'm sure we'll have plenty of adventures from the train to share with you all. There is so much from Moscow that we haven't even had a chance to cover here. I was a bit worried that keeping a blog would leave me with nothing to say when I got back, but that most certainly hasn't been the case so far. We have a couple more things to take care of before we head out, so I'm off.

China here we come...