Pictures from Travel-Stained Life
We are a Midwestern-American couple who decided to take a chance at a life less ordinary and travel round the world for a bit. We quit our jobs, bid farewell to our homeland, and are on a journey to meet new people and see extraordinary things. Welcome to our page!| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
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Things we learned: Currency: Hryvnia (7 Hryvnia=$1 USD) Places Visited: Rakhiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv Bring extra American cash as the ATM’s may not work here. Know the difference between internet cafes that are really just gambling parlors and internet cafes that are really internet cafes. If there is a bouncer outside the door and “salon” on [...]
Our arrival in Ukraine was the beginning of five days of frustration. When our ATM card refused to work in Solotvino, the town across the Romanian border, we reasoned that maybe the only ATM in town did not accept our network. When ATMs on our network in the small town of Rakhiv failed to open [...]