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Most people travel east to New York on through to Moscow to get into Russia.
Since Chita is in Eastern Russia close to the China border, I went the opposite way. From the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport, I flew to Phoenix, Arizona, had a layover in Seattle, Washington, then traveled on to Anchorage, Alaska, where I spent my first night with a Rotarian family, 1996-97 District Governor Lloyd and Joan Morris. The next morning they saw me safely off to Khabarovsk, Russia, where I spent two days with an English teacher and her husband. Another English teacher from Chita met me in Khabarovsk and accompanied me on the Trans-Siberian Railway for 40 hours to Chita.