I got up just before 9:00 a.m. because the insurance person was supposed to be here by nine. She was tardy. So I went and ate breakfast and she still wasn’t here. I came back to the room and worked on my blog and she arrived at 12:00 noon. It is a beautiful sunny day. Within an hour I had my motorcycle insurance and a green card on my motorcycle for $42. Now I’m safe from the Police. Then I found out my visa departure date is 31 August 2009 and my motorcycle departure date is 14 August 2009. This is not good. The girls at the reception desk checked into this and said this can be fixed in any town at the customs office. This still worries me. I may have to look into this a little farther. I’m going to plan to leave tomorrow morning early so as not to get caught up in traffic. So I need to get out and get some maps now. I asked at the desk about a location to purchase maps. They said there is a shopping center with a large ball on top of it where you can buy maps. So I asked them to write down that I wanted to purchase Russian maps. I walked down to the store and handed a lady the card and she promptly marched off to the book store. When we got there she asked the girls working there to show me where the maps were. Oh, they were so put out and made it well known. She mentioned to them I didn’t know a lick of Russian. They begrudgingly showed me. It took me 30 seconds to see they didn’t have squat for maps. Every map or atlas was pure cryllic, but I knew that was going to be. I kind of was told you could find all the maps you need in the gas stations. Ha, ha, chuckle, chuckle, laugh, laugh. Remember what I told you a day or two ago. Sometimes gas stations don’t have any amenities. I screened all the maps and atlas’s on the shelf and found one I could decipher. It kind of caught my eye because it showed all the towns with gas stations, hotels and restaurants, handy information. All the time I sitting there looking thru the maps about every ten minutes one of the girls went cruising by checking to see that I wasn’t carrying off the store. This country is very theft conscious. Anyway, I bought the trucker atlas and stopped in the grocery store to look for some masking tape. They didn’t have any and neither did the tool store upstairs. So I bought several boxes of chocolates to kill my appetite when I’m starving, and that’s frequently. I was now able to plan my routes using three maps: the world map I have on my computer, a Russian map in English and the Russian Truckers Atlas. With all of that I have a pretty good idea what’s coming down the pike. I completed my blog up to 15 June 2009. I was able to buy WiFi time at the hotel and sent all the e-mails that had attachments which I can’t send through my satellite connection. AT&T has already complained of over-usage and warned me that it costs $19 a megabyte when I exceed my 100 megabyte usage per month. I finished up my e-mails, planned my route for the next day and went to bed.
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