Visa finally

[WARREN-IRINA 1]

I'm working 14-16 hour days so here is the short version.

Irina got her visa 18 April. Interview was 30 March.

Thank You everyone. 7J

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Congratulations, si man!

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Congrats !

[baron555 934]

Way to go.

[dogspot 90]

Congratulations Warren! I've been checking for updates from you everyday, hoping to hear this.

[Tanya and Barry 59]

Congrats!!!

[AKguy 1]

Congrats!!

Hope you can change your hours after she arrives.

[slim 1,525]

Way to go, Warren!

Hopefully work will calm down for you a little and you'll be able to give us a more detailed report. Have fun!

[LvivLovers 39]

Grats!

[Captain Hammer 113]

Congratulations!

[WARREN-IRINA 1]

I am retired so I don't really have to work but it can pay for trips to visit the great wonders of the American West. There are must see places Zion’s Nation Park, Capital Reef NP, Bryce Canyon NP, Arches NP, Canyon Lands NP, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Dinosaur NM, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, all in Utah plus many state parks and Grand Canyon NP Sawtooth Mts NRA, Hells Canyon of the Snake River in Idaho, Yellow Stone NP, Jackson Hole area in Wyoming, Great Basin NP in Nevada all within a day’s drive of where I live.

My job is during the construction season so winters are free to take the travel trailer south to warmer weather.

I know hundreds of scenic mountain roads in the area national forests around here too if she wants to go. I have an extra 26 gallon tank on my Dakota 4 wheel drive pickup that gives me 500 to 700 miles on dirt roads to 1000 to 1300 mile highway range without refueling. If I drive it like I own it, not like I stole it, I get 20 to 22 MPG with the 318 V8 5 speed.

Visiting my sisters in Albuquerque New Mexico and West Port Washington are on the list. I want to see her eyes as we go off the Deadman Pass on I-84 into Pendleton Oregon.

She already knows she is going to visit the 4 wheel drive trails of the Moab area. What I didn't tell her is the T-shirt says, "Get in, Sit Down, Shut Up, HOLD ON!!!". Too bad she will miss this year’s Red Rock 4 Wheelers Easter Jeep Safari which started the 16th and ends the 24th. Next year?? Maybe the quitter Red Rock 4 Wheelers Labor Day weekend event. I have drove to Moab Friday night ran trails Sat. and Sunday and was back to work Monday morning before many times.

She said she wanted to see places so it is up to her.

My Rat Terrier got a little hipper after talking to her on the phone last night. She loves to talk to him. He will get to add 2 states to his list of states he has been in making it 40 and it got him wound up when I told him we would take a trip to LAX to pick her up. We will come back by Highway One up the California coast then over Donner Pass or through the Feather River Canyon into Nevada. The there is the 40 miles of flat as a table top and straight as an arrow across the Bonneville Salt Flats.

As for my driving she will take a few trips with me in the truck locally. There have been requests at places I go to meet her. My boss told my brother he wanted her as an accountant as he is sick of the one he has. My brother may send us out in his truck or take us with him during the winter for her to see Eastern America too. He hauls Idaho potatoes to the east coast to be picked up by Canadian drivers going back to Canada after delivering Canadian goods to the US. Running team with him would give time to visit museums which we both have done when we had time before. It is up to her if she wants to go. Double bunk sleeper cab. She gets the right seat to ride in as I have seen American roads coast to coast, Gulf of Mexico to Canada.

She earned my respect when she called me sobbing and crying, “Where are you and how are you?” as she was watching Hurricane Rita tearing a path through southeast Texas on Russian TV and knew I was driving a truck in Texas. That was 4 years before we met in Russia. After three American SCAM ARTISTS after my wife died I took very carefully. I thought I had blown it after I arrived in Moscow. We were in the cab going from the airport when I realized I had my wedding band from late wife on my left little finger and she was rubbing it with her fingers. I told her I would take it off. “No, leave it on. It is good you remember her,” she said. The cab driver must have spoken English as he nearly run off the road looking back at her and there was a surprised look on his face.

She is a keeper for sure.

Many thanks to all of you.

[Brad and Vika 129]

Congratulations!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I'm working 14-16 hour days so here is the short version.

Irina got her visa 18 April. Interview was 30 March.

Thank You everyone. 7J

Great news! Congratualtions.

[baron555 934]

I am retired so I don't really have to work but it can pay for trips to visit the great wonders of the American West.

She is a keeper for sure.

Many thanks to all of you.

Congrats again. We are planning a little southern Utah excursion for next March. My mom lives in Mesa and we'll base out of there. We have a few day trip planned to see Grand, Byrce and Canyonlands.......probably skip Vegas......I'll keep you abreast of these plans, maybe we can meet up.

We don't do the four-wheeling thang but my family is into camping and canoeing. She love it here, especially with all the scenic wonders we have....then you can go back and she can show you the same over there.

[LvivLovers 39]

I haven't been in a jeep since the time we rented one when I was younger out in Ouray, CO. The place that rented it to us just gave us a map of unpaved roads and turned us loose...pure madness! We drove it over something called Red Mountain Pass! It was only wide enough for 1 car and unpaved at the time, so we were praying we didn't meet anyone. No guardrails and instant death if you make a mistake, plus it had switchbacks and places where the road was washed out and replaced with some 2x4s just a bit wider than the tires. I still remember my dad actually had us get out of the jeep at one point and walk behind him! We got to some spot where we could see where we had driven up and there were 2 more jeeps facing each other head on about 80% of the way up (1/4 to 1/2 mile)...one was having to back down...poor bastards! Yeah...never doing that again.