Hi John,

we placed four so far throughout Russia. Today we positioned one at Lake Baikal, the fabled lake every Russian we met wants to see at least once in his/her life. Sidenote: it contains 20% of the worlds freshwater and is home to various species found nowhere else on earth (we ate a Baikal fish today and saw Baikal seals).

Next up is Mongolia and after that down to the ‘stans. I’ll keep posting stories, but am a bit behind on sorting out photo’s and material.
You can follow our progress at dutchcourage.org 🙂

We actually like to take Sam along on this big adventure! He seems to give an extra sparkle to it and, perhaps coincidental, the sun has been following us for the past month, everywhere we came, the weather changed.

-RJ

From:    John M Cohn/Burlington/IBM@IBMUS
To:    Robert-Jan Sips/Netherlands/IBM@IBMNL@IBMGB,
Cc:    gj.keizer@gmail.com
Date:    22-09-14 23:25
Subject:    Re: SamStone Kazan

Robert-Jan,
Thanks so much !.. this i such a cool looking place. It means so much to us that you are taking Sam on your big adventure.
Where too next ? It’s fun to be watching your progress !
Sorry you’re having trouble with the upload. I’ll see what’s up.
-jc

John Cohn Ph.D,
IBM Fellow , Corporate Technical Strategy
phone 802-578-0985