First Trip: 1993 -

Athletes traveling as Sports Ambassadors
Exhibition, Sports Camps, Training development
All travel by bus…..UGH….with F1 type driver- needs to learn about centrifugal force!!
Unlined roads with mysterious middle passing lane
Bus driver sleeping in bus so it wouldn’t be stolen
Slept in hostel which we found out later doubled as a brothel
Reading material supplied in bathrooms…oh, not for reading!!!!
Russian guides/translators….gorgeous!!
Never seen a black man before
Cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes
Russian phrase, “if you’re not stealing from company, you’re stealing from family.”
Ethics???
Empty stores
“This was a former superpower??!!”
Speaking to the crowd during sports exhibition
Treated like Rock Stars!!
Equipment was stolen 
Too many people, had to escape on bus.
Legs, legs, legs!!!
Make-up, make-up, make-up
Everything looks run-down
Stayed in former Olympic village
Played in Olympic stadium
Extortion on Public bus
Lesson: Don’t walk around advertising you’re American!!
2 weeks in Eastern Europe, 3-day recovery in Swiss alps!!
Note: Items in 5-star hotel….NOT complimentary!!! 