29SEP - On the road at 09:15. Some rush hour traffic, plus getting use to riding two-up.
Had to include a photo of one of the former checkpoints. When I spent a month in Leningrad (now again St. Petersburg) in 1972 they had checkpoints like these everywhere. People had to get permits to go to the next town. All a part of the workers paradise program. Brought back memories.
We arrived in Ostrov at 14:00 after 193 rain-free miles along a pretty fair two lane highway. Not much truck traffic.
The Ostriv Park Hotel is a small facility with about fifteen rooms and a restaurant. Its an old two story building that has been made into a hotel, thus each room is different.
We took a walk through the village taking in our last day in a Russian village.
Tonight we'll have dinner in the hotel restaurant and celebrate our 36 days in Russia and the fact that we'll cross over to Lithuania on Tuesday, our 38th day in country.
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