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Time to say goodbye
6 August 2005    
What a wonderful feeling to return to the land of green summertime pastures and flowing streams with wildflowers in abundance!
We made it back to the hotel nestled here in this pine forest, and are currently digging into our third bowl of fresh made french fries and sipping ice cold beers, (coke for Evan).

Tommorrow we head back to Moscow and onwards towards home. We just wanted to thank everyone back home for following along and look foward to getting back to share all our stories with loved ones!
So till next month, this is Russia, signing off.

Luis Benitez

Previous Dispatches
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The battle has been won    5 August 2005
What a day!

So the fabled weather window did not show up. Nevertheless, we loaded into the snow-cat at 4am for the 45min ride to Pastokov rocks, keeping our fingers and toes crossed for impro

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Hurry up and wait    4 August 2005
Today's plan was simple, get up and walk! However, due to the unstable weather, we decided to use our reserve day and go tomorrow. The crew decided we have the time, so why not use it?
Now it

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AC crew takes part in weather dances    3 August 2005
Rest day in Barrell land.
The weather has not improved much, Kelton and Elise tried to do their part by participating in a good weather dance with the locals.

The afternoon has been spent