So this morning we were up with the sun at 5am. We were joined by another co-worker Lyuba, who speaks Russian. She let us know that we got fleeced by the taxi drivers in Nizhniy. Went to work after some major snags, and I slept the entire way there, and the entire way home. Since the plant closes at 4, we also had to leave at 4. We got back to Nizhniy Novgorod at 5:45, changed, then went out walking around the city. There are a lot of things here that re...

So Charles and I (somehow) made it to Nizhniy Novgorod. This was my first flight on Delta - we went through Atlanta and straight to Moscow - 11 hours... nothing compared to China flights. So everyone told us to be prepared that the ride between airports (Moscow has 5 airports) might take 5 hours or so. We got totally attacked as soon as we walked out of the terminal with illegal taxi drivers trying to charge us over $250 USD for a taxi. They refused to allow us ...