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20 June. For the second time in writing this journal, I can use this phrase: This morning, it’s official. In this instance, it means the scratchy throat and intermittent achiness of the past few days is now a full-fledged cold. …

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19 June. One of the peculiarities of this trip has been our oddly coordinated arrival times with regard to checking-in to our hotels. It may be that we’re coming and going at the only times available and I hope that’s …

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18 June – Afternoon. It’s time to recount my afternoon with Erin traveling to the Khamovniky neighborhood to see the house and garden where Count Leo Tolstoy frequently spent his winters in the 1880s and 1890s. We had no difficulty …