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00:00 Intro

02:50 Introduction of guest - My Dad

4:55 Motivation and reasons for the 1986 sabbatical

5:40 How the school offered a sabbatical

6:50 Others who had taken the sabbatical before him -

8:04 The uniqueness of the high school my Dad worked at

09:25 Life in general

• Adventures In The Blue Beast by Jeannie Morris
  • Good Reads on the book above

11:50 Johnny Morris

12:57 The Family Dynamic

• Volkswagen Vanagon Pictures and videos in file below

13:59 It was not easy and planning

14:50 Contextualization of being a kid in the1980s and long term effects of Tony becoming a History teacher

18:42 The First leg of the trip - European Exploration as Tourists - Eight countries in 6 weeks

• European Camping for the Middle Class - Paris Campground 

25:02 The history aspects of the first leg

• World War I and Verdun
• The Tower of London
• The castle of Edinburgh Scotland
• The Soviets and WWII - Soviet “Great Patriotic War Museum” in Minsk, Belarus
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland
• Dachau Concentration Camp West Germany

35:26 The different experience of my sisters - Two teenage American girls

37:58 Traveling as a parent and watching your children

• Europe Through the Backdoor by Rick Steves

41:31 Planning and financing the sabbatical Patreon

44:17 Traveling before the ATM and American Express Travelers Checks

48:11 Forcing yourself out of your comfort zone - and cave man communication with language - Patreon

51:20 The importance of “Hello” and “Thank You”

52:17  The Second leg of the trip - The Soviet Union September 1 to 15 1986, and then communist Poland and Czechoslovakia 

• Cold War Thoughts
• Dr. Strangelove (1964) Movie

55:04 - Planning the Soviet trip through the Communist government and Intourist and government checkpoints

• Intourist information 
• Intourist: The Soviet State Travel Agency

59:46 Trading rubles on the black market and our local teenage guides in Leningrad

• The State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg/Leningrad
• The Soviets and WWII - Soviet Museum in Minsk, Belarus

01:02  Local guides because of Kristin and Megan 

01:04:11  My fear of the Soviet Union and Rocky IV to Mikhail Gorbachev

• How Rocky Ended The Cold War -Funny youtube fake documentary

01:05:41 Arriving to Moscow 

• Cosmos state hotel of Moscow
• The Estonian black marketers of Novgorod
• Communist Amusement Parks
• Saint Basil's Cathedral Moscow

01:15:01 -  Great Quote from the journal - “September 12th, 1986.  Travel to Smolensk. .. The road to Smolenskis the same one Napoleon and Hitler must have taken.  White birch, wheat fields, and our fourth day in a row of sun are highlights of the journey.  What an incredible social experiment this communism is. They have come so far so fast. One notices the levels of society layered as in a time machine.  The old women hunched over picking mushrooms, the young soldiers, the black marketers, and the Cosmos Hotel.”

01:16:16 Reflections on Poland

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland

*P01:19:00 PATREON ONLY Version of podcast -  Family connections to Poland

01:20 Conclusion and Outro

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