Butterflies are free!

Well, Jim's Russian visa is supposed to be in Chicago early tomorrow morning, so he has changed his flight to leave from O'Hare to JFK.  He'll leave Madison 2 AM on the bus to get to Chicago.  I leave noon out of Tampa and we should meet up with no time to spare at JFK to go to Moscow.  It will be 8,291 air miles starting tomorrow.  Then, we get to Irkutsk at 5AM Thursday.  I am to meet with the director of a medical clinic that day.  The next day we are scheduled to go fishing.  Temperature in the 20's according to the weather forecast.  One way to get over jet lag!

I have added a picture from Jim and I in our high school yearbook from 1968 on the debate team.
Major thanks to Mike Pachota for providing Sharky's on the Pier gear to distribute in Siberia.