DEC 18, 18 .. FOLLOWING THE RULES .. TO-THE-‘T’ ..

Each foreign visitor to Russia is required to register their whereabouts in each and in every city they visit and stay for a few days. When I visited Ulan-Ude in August of 2017, I was there in Ulan-Ude in specific, and in Russia in general, for just three days. We (Deegi from Ulaanbaatar and me) inquired with the authorities when I was in Ulan-Ude, and we were told not to worry about this requirement with my stay being so transient and brief. And it all worked out fine when I crossed the border leaving Russia and entering into Mongolia.

Leaving the country is where the problems will arise if indeed they are going to arise. I got body-slammed for a visa irregularity in Dubai that cost me over U.S. $500 and contributed to my experiencing a broken left hip when I left in November 2016.

This trip is going to be very by-the-book to the max. I entered Russia planning to stay, more or less, indefinitely. So in Irkutsk, Sergey, Mike and I did the deal and I was formally registered as being in Irkutsk at the invitation of Sergey. In Kyzyl we again did the deal and I was registered there as having been invited there by Lida.

I told Mike when we were about to come up here from Kyzyl to Abakan that I wanted to register here a.s.a.p. making it our number one top priority.

We got here yesterday and we registered me here today. What a deal it was. It took somewhere around three hours of waiting in queues to do the deal. Now that it’s a done deal, it seems to downplay the angst that the three hours were as we lived them. I felt uncomfortable that, on my behalf, Mike and Alexander (who formally invited me to Abakan) and Denis (whose property I am going to be residing in), each had to devote their afternoon to this activity but it is what it is.

Then Mike and Alexander and I visited Tele2 to get one of my cell phones recharged with money. This took about 30 minutes.

Then home to our flat. I ate dinner here. Lay down for a 20-minute ‘power nap’ and it was time to stand and deliver.

By the time the curtain went up, it was standing room only. The meeting lasted only a few minutes short of a full two hours.

Man Oh Manischewitz! They are really into the group photos. Only about half of those in attendance got into the below photo.

Man Oh Manischewitz! These kind folks love their ‘munchies’.

To some large extent, I felt like I was looking into my own eyes back in the 1950’s.

The party’s over! It’s time to call it a day.

HAPPINESS IS :

Above is a photo of the high speed Wi-Fi Router that is enabling me to be on-line here IN my flat.

Thank You My Dear Patti for cleaning this up.

Cap

A few Abakan photos for you all to peruse over on blogspot :

http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2018/12/dec-18-18-abakan-russian-siberia-first.html

• ← DEC 17, 18 .. (Part 1 of 2 Parts) ..TRAVEL DAY .. KYZYL TO ABAKAN BY OVER-THE-ROAD BUS
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