Comments on: The Very-Fast Train is 1 Hour Late (and Other Ukrainian Paradoxical Experiences) https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/ Traveling full-time in a financially sustainable way Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-1084504 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:12:33 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-1084504 In reply to James Mcavoy.

Thanks James!

]]> By: James Mcavoy https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-1082713 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:41:31 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-1082713 What a great story!

]]> By: theprofessionalhobo https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-279853 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:48:40 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-279853 In reply to Bethaney – Flashpacker Family.

Bethaney – I love surprising travel experiences; and Ukraine was one pleasant surprise after another…and just what the doctor ordered.

]]> By: Bethaney - Flashpacker Family https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-279814 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:59:49 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-279814 What a great story! As always, it’s the interaction with people that really makes or breaks a travel experience. Luckily, this was a good one!

]]> By: Keith Louttit https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153622 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:33:25 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153622 @ Erik… just a little grease to ease you into the third millenium… whether asian, of occidental, EVERY country’s power machine is corrupted to to a certain degree… have you been paying attention to American politics? our government is rampant with corruption and feeds it…

the whole asian hemisphere is a beautiful place to be… as i’m sure you already know from your own multitudinous travels… maybe i think i will think of your name being Marco, and not Erik…

but you always have to haggle, tip or just plain bribe someone who has what you need… no matter where you go in life…

my doormat doesn’t say ‘Welcome”, it says ‘$10 Entry Fee’ and feels empowering… it’s an humanly innate ego enforcer… and it’s a wonderful idea to share, so i give this gift to you…

so use it… live it… admire it… be it… get it? but you won’t have to love it…

]]> By: Erik https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153554 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:41:45 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153554 Someday the countries of the former USSR (and Russia itself) will emerge from the days of bribes and red tape and become tourism powerhouses, but that day is years away, I fear.

A very interesting read.

]]> By: Keith Louttit https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153372 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:33:06 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153372 @ Nora: My oft nightly dreams of Tatum O’Neal have seemingly become replaced by this person you refer to as ‘Oksana’… someone so unknown to me, someone who, could be just a character as in the mind of a schizophrenic’s, just as they do not really exist, and how this “Oksana’, in my mind may be truly an unreliable knowledge…

saying her name aloud, using the three boxes of voice: the actuator, the resonator, and the articulator, turns my cloudy days into sunny ones…

just knowing someone with a name like hers that rolls so gently across my tongue to my lips and then to my ear, is thrilling beyond words… even to me…

]]> By: Active Ukraine https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153295 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:38:49 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153295 Nora, it’s been such a pleasure for us to host you on our trip!

Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine still keep the remnants of the old lifestyle, and it’s always so inspiring to get a taste of it (even for the urban Ukrainians ourselves!)

Hope more and more people will come to Ukraine and get to know our beautiful and still very real country.

All the best,
Active Ukraine team

]]> By: Keith Louttit https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153086 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:11:44 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153086 @ Miki: thank you for the reference to my compliment about someone whom I hold in dear regard… someone whom I have trusted with some of my most secret self-knowledge and experience… someone who obviously doesn’t rely on her own celebrity, unlike others she has worked with, but instead sees only future to be gained and embraces her desire for self and other exploration in my opinion, enthusiastically and lovingly…

@ Nora, i have put into my will that you should receive my two cats, along with their litter box… please take them to the nearest woods to Ontario, Canadia, and set them loose when you feel the need, but please sing “Born Free” as you do… you have the voice of an angel, as well as the angelic aura that I have seen surround you…

]]> By: Miki https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/the-very-fast-train-is-1-hour-late-and-other-ukrainian-paradoxical-experiences/#comment-153043 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:47:18 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=2903#comment-153043 Wow, I loved this post (not that I don’t love all your posts,lol). It’s past just my immense love of borscht and perogies. The story and the pictures of the shepherd had me on the edge of my seat. AMAZING! I just love that you got to experience that type of life, even if only for a day…and that you shared it with us! Now I want to know everything…
When you wrote that he started to cry, I started to tear up! I want to know all about his little cottage and herding and making cheese and the villagers coming up the mountain…and more about cheese,lol.
Sigh…what a great daydream of such a life( as I listen to the whir of the automatic coffee machine going off in my office).

As for what Keith wrote: dare not to fool yourself and think that the world you are traveling through is Nirvana, but instead believe that Nirvana is your aura….
…that’s an intriguing thought. I shall ponder this today.

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