Out of Ukraine - 20 Pounds Later...
As with all family reunions, eventually our time in Ukraine had to come to an end. While certainly better than five-year gaps between...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 25, 2020
- 6 min
Khortitsa Sich - A Day with the Cossacks
Cossacks - somewhat like dachas - have made plenty of appearances in Western popular culture, but most Americans (Chipp certainly...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
A Day at the Dacha
To many Westerners, Soviet dachas maintain a near mythical aura following a Cold War’s worth of media and pop culture references. From...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 11, 2020
- 6 min
A (Georgian Food) Walk Down Memory Lane - Plus Some Tequila
After spending three months with the Marines living outside Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (plus another seven months deployed to...
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TT&W Team
- Dec 4, 2020
- 5 min
A Ukrainian Feast… and “Shout!”
If it’s not clear already, our lives largely revolved around food during our time in Zap. Family, sure. Booze, you bet. But food...
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TT&W Team
- Nov 27, 2020
- 5 min
Working "Na Balconye" - Daily Routine in Zaporizhzhia
Getting settled into life in Zaporizhzhia, we faced an interesting - and somewhat incongruous - set of circumstances. On one hand, we...
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TT&W Team
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
An Army-Navy Rivalry, Soviet Style
As a Marine Corps officer commissioned out of the Naval Academy, Chipp basically kicked off his service in the deep end: What semester do...
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TT&W Team
- Nov 13, 2020
- 5 min
A Ukrainian Family Reunion - and Food!
After exploring Istanbul - and learning a little about the travel/work balance on the road - we headed off to Zaporizhzhia (a.k.a....
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