Here are a few pictures that didn’t find their way into other posts —

Here is a screen grab from a Skype call we made a while ago. Valerie likes to send me messages while we talk. When I’m traveling, at least we have Skype —

I took this as we crossed from Finland (left bank) into Norway (right bank). This is the Anarjohka River, the border also between Lapland and Finnmark.

I saw this truck as I was driving from Murmansk to St. Petersburg — it’s for a building supply company named Obama.

Here are a couple of pictures from Valerie’s birthday(s) in July — (she celebrated in Estonia and then in Russia) —