Gear-Changing Greetings!

Before explaining what I mean by that, here are links to two more galleries from the road trip to Karelia last month:

https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Road-Trip-Part-2

https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Road-Trip-Part-3

The bit about ‘changing gears’ is because of what’s happening in my travels now. After spending a few fine days in Moscow last week, I flew from Moscow to Kaliningrad on Friday. The flight was beautiful! It was not a direct straight line, like last time, clearly because of the political situation. Instead of flying across Belarus and Lithuania, we flew north from Moscow to near St. Petersburg, then went out over the middle of the Baltic Sea, following the coasts of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania until we arrived at Kaliningrad. I was able to see landmarks along the way that were familiar to me from the 2018 gas balloon flight over the Baltic Sea, from Germany to Estonia. That story can be found at this link:

https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Go-With-the-Flow-September-18-19-2018

My time in Russia on this trip is almost finished. It has been another very good visit. Tomorrow night, I’ll take a bus from Kaliningrad to Vilnius, stay there one night and then fly to Paris. Then, after spending two days there, I’ll fly to Chad. So, there are some big changes coming my way!

Wishing you all the best in whatever changes you experience!

GoldBalloon