Family Vacations

[BudgetPlan1]

Some go to Disney, some to the beach and others prefer camping. Us? We went to Russia



Gde nakhoditsya tualet!

 

[Setec Astronomy]

50 years ago?

 

[Texchappy]

Tell your handler hi

 

[BudgetPlan1]

50 years ago?

Unfortunately

Tell your handler hi

“Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for us”


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[Setec Astronomy]

Are you going to give us the details? Not about your handler, about the trip.

 

[Sizzle Chest]

Oh, very cool!!!

 

[Klasse Act]

Great trip I bet

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[BudgetPlan1]

Are you going to give us the details? Not about your handler, about the trip.

Dad got a deal on the trip through his workplace (NASA). Boeing 707 out of Washington DC, changed planes in Shannon, Ireland then off to Moscow.

Couple of days in Moscow, train to little town called Kalinin I believe, resumed train trip next day for a few days in Leningrad.

Things I recall about Moscow:

- Lack of any color, very gray.
- Whole sardines on plate for breakfast.
- Local children surrounding bus clamoring for packs of chewing gum.
- Getting ice cream in GUM department store off of Red Square - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUM_(department_store)
- Long lines of people everywhere, bread lines some said.
- Bidet…what is that? Really?!?!
- Russian ‘snowplows’:

- Russian Space Monument

Leningrad
- Color, not so gray
- Oranges; to a 12 year old any ‘normal’ food was a treat.
- Sitting on the floor of the Hermitage museum wondering how soon we’d be returning to the good ‘ol USA
- Battleship Aurora
- Final ‘Gala Dinner’; Caviar is fish eggs? I ain’t eating that. But my blue leisure suit is rockin’ the house!

Stopped in Shannon, Ireland on flight back home as well. Remember getting a 7-Up in the airport and it being the best thing to pass through my lips since leaving home 2 weeks before.

Great trip I bet

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Not so much when you’re 11 and a Big Mac is your idea of Fine Dining


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Back in May of 1976 we did a cruise around the South Pacific on a Russian cruise ship, the Tara's Shevchenko. I was 6 so I don't remember too much about it, other than being sea sick a couple of times. We went to New Caledonia, Fiji, and New Zealand, there may be more, but I don't remember.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Dad got a deal on the trip through his workplace (NASA).

LeRC? Apollo-Soyuz? Business trip? If so, how did he get to bring the family? Cultural exchange?

 

[BudgetPlan1]

LeRC? Apollo-Soyuz? Business trip? If so, how did he get to bring the family? Cultural exchange?

Yep, Dad worked at LeRC. I think they just somehow offered a non-business trip so off we went. If I recall seeing the flyer is was 14 days, $700 per person all inclusive.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Yep, Dad worked at LeRC.

That must have been cool for you, growing up.