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<font face="Arial">For the time being we're in central Illinois
staying with friends. If anyone in the area would like to meet
up, we're available and have our car with us.<br>
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Currently preliminary plan is from here we'll go to Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, we know an engineering student there who will gladly
help us find an apartment and show us around. The common
languages are Uzbek and Russian (used to be part of the Soviet
Union). Looking on Google Earth we see a lot of signs in English
too, as it's the capitol city it would make sense. The main
international airport is there so lots of foreigners.<br>
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Due to their low COVID rates, Russia will probably open the border
in a few months for people who have been in Uzbekistan past a
quarantine period. Opening to people from the USA is unknown so
this gets us most of the way there and has the best chance of
early entry.<br>
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They have also started issuing Sputnik V injections, so we maybe
we could get that there. In any case they and Russia have no
mandates for vaccine and limited mask and other mandates.<br>
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So, as the bumper stickers that we got when working with the
Cousteau team say: DESTINATION UNKNOWN<br>
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