Things that will get me off a plane very quickly...

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35. We started out in Moscow, and then went to...

...the went to the capital cities of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine.

The trip was initailly supposed to be limited to nurse practitioners, bu not ennough signed up so the organizeers opened to any an all nurses. There were several fairly elderly women who claimed to be doing private duty nursing tht sounded a lot like being a paid companion to people who didn't like to leave their homes. I think they were all LPNs, and they were all from The Palm Beaches in Florida. Most of them had never traveled out of the US before takng this trip, and they did not adapt well to the cultural challenges of the various republics we visited.

It was an interesting trip, but not the most fun I'd ever had. Most of the health care facilities we saw were fairly primitive, and I would not have wanted to be sick there, or needed surgery. We were there in late summer, so it was hot. The first hospital we visited was in Moscow. No air conditioning, so the windows were open. No screens, so there were flies everywhere - really gross.