Chapt. 317 - 4 404 words
I’m ready to go to Moldova, but where’s Igor?
Somewhere in Northern Spain, June 27, 2011 – 3025 hits

Misha has to pay a rental agent
I get the money from David G.
Ready to go to Moldova, but where’s Igor?
Sasha has e-mail problems – x 2
American media not telling everything about Fukushima
U.S. West Coast severely affected, but not Spain -- yet

Chapt. 316 - 3 351 words
Staying in Spain – but summering with Igor in Moldova
Somewhere in northern Spain, June 15 – 2566 hits

Flag Day – in a country headed for bankruptcy?
I’m staying in Spain with Sasha,
But going to spend the summer with Igor in Moldova

Chapt. 315 - 4 933 words
Life getting complicated -- again
Somewhere in northern Spain, May 28, 2011 – 2683 hits

Future life in Moldova gets complicated
Violence comes to Morocco
Sexual education for young Muslims

Chapt. 314 - 1 933 words
Back from Marrakesh, packing for Moldova
Somewhere in northern Spain, May 13, 2011 – 2852 hits

Back from Marrakesh, scene of terrorist bombing
Bin Laden Mort!
Bush's police state remembered
Plans for Moldova moving forward

Chapt. 309 - 2 393 words
Fighting the bureaucracy alone
Somewhere in Northern Spain, January 12, 2011 -- 2485 hits

Druzhka back in Moscow
Bureaucratic Spain
I lose my keys
And buy a computer desk – still unassembled
All I wanted was a potato masher

Chapt. 308 - 2 166 words
Christmas in Spain – Feliz Navidades a Todos :-)
Somewhere in Northern Spain, December 25, 2010 -- 2499 hits

Christmas alone – not half bad
Spanish Christmas tradition quite different
A call from Vlad
Druzhka really going back to Moscow
Max, Basil, reply to Xmas e-mails
Speaking of publishing...

Chapt. 307 - 2 650 words
Things look up for me; but oil problems for everybody in the long term
Ourense, Spain, December 5, 2010 -- 2431 hits

Financial crisis causing changes for me in Spain
Druzhka moving back to Russia
I'll play local guide to London this summer?
Computer finally getting hooked up – maybe
I don't have $ to bring Misha here now; but maybe soon?
Worst yet energy, money crises, looming

Chapt. 306 - 2 339 words
A bad case of politics in the u.s.a.
Somwhere in northwest Spain, November 12, 2010 -- 2476 hits

Back "Home" in Spain
"A fiscal train wreck waiting to happen"
Norteamericano politics
Pharmaceuticals – socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor
Gifts for 14-year-old Spanish boy
Interesting history of new laptop
Which immediately went on the blink,
But it's fixed now.
And so is my sexuality

Chapt. 305 - 1 972 words
I'm not dead yet; Eye exam scheduled
Rome, Ga., USA, Sept. 30, 2010 -- 2506 hits

I'm still very much alive
Good things on other fronts
My former English student from Moscow will come to Rome to visit me
Republican majority
Elaine and I

Chapt. 304 - 983 words
Still no eye opeeration; I'm bored in America
Rome, Ga., USA, Sept. 19, 2010 -- 2428 hits

Still no eye operation
No residual damage from Russian strokes
Trip to Seattle
Maxim passes his higher ed exams
Artur send me songs to edit
I'm bored in America!

Chapt. 303 - 3,680 words
Back in Norteamerica - to stay?
Near Greenville, WV, July 25, 2010 -- 2569 hits

In America
A Short History of Nearly Everything
American medical bureaucracy
First come, first served
Only in America!
I would probably be bored here

Chapt. 302 - 1,776 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, May 17, 2010 -- 3010 hits

I've got a bloody toothache!
Speaking of birthdays, Drushka's is tomorrow.
I had an e-mail from Misha.
Most Russians think bribery is the best way to solve problems.

Chapt. 301 - 2,282 words
Lord, I’m comin’ home
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, April 26, 2010 -- 2565 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 300 - 1,813 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, April 7, 2010 -- 2622 hits

I'm now an illegal alien.
Friday was 'el Dia de San José in Spain.
I continue to get e-mails from my friends and students in Russia.
Just got back from Lisbon.

Chapt. 299 - 2,086 words
Renewing my visa (maybe) in Andorra
Galicia, Spain, March 15, 2010 -- 2859 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 298 - 2,599 words
I move – in a “hurricane”
Galicia, Northern Spain, March 7, 2010 -- 2596 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 297 - 1,556 words
Settling into Spain
Galicia, Northern Spain, February 26, 2010 -- 2390 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 296 - 2,097 words
Hercules’ Tower
Somewhere in Northern Spain, February 14, 2010 -- 3915 hits

Fiesta Queen

Chapt. 295 - 2,548 words
Remembering Russia
Somewhere in Northern Spain, January 27, 2010 -- 2980 hits

Cooking in Spain
Crying over Misha
Russia today -- and why I left
Irina's lover dead -- life is not fair

Chapt. 294 - 2,021 words
My first month in Spain – Besemé…not even close
Spain, January 21, 2010 -- 2625 hits

The Fiesta Queen