good morning guys I am in Kazakhstan and
I am whispering because it is very very
very early in the morning car just drove
by in our little village I am basically
on the outskirts of Ahmadi right now I
am staying with the most wonderful lady
who is a mutual friend and has taken me
in and is honestly beyond kind that I
could even ever explain I'll tell you
guys more as this story goes along but
basically I got in at midnight last
night customs and baggage was actually
super easy and then as soon as I got out
into arrivals she was there to meet me
and we got into her place here probably
around 1:30 a.m. and I think I think
it's around 6:00 7:00 8:00 a.m. but I'm
not sure because there's like next to no
cell service out here for me and she
doesn't have Wi-Fi so I'm gonna have to
wait until I am get into the city to get
a SIM card later today to have access to
the outside world yeah I'm not really
sure what time it is but the Sun is up
and I'm just standing outside of my
balcony of this little room I'll give
you guys a little view so here is the
balcony as you guys can see we're kind
of on the outskirts of the city where
she said a lot of people kind of have
vacation homes she said as you guys can
see there's beautiful little garden
below us some grapes over here
and then it's a super lovely room but I
just didn't have time to put all my
stuff away last night because I was so
tired like I basically flew my whole
flight with very little sleep sadly so
I'm gonna hope that I had just fairly
good but I actually got a pretty good
5-6 hours of sleep I would say I just
realized this is kind of like an ASMR
video that I've never do one of those on
YouTube and yet here we are so today
what I think we'll be doing is kind of a
prep date because she booked us two
tickets to see the Col SOI lakes which
is one of Kazakhstan's biggest
attractions but it's about five hours
away from where we are for the weekend
so we're going to be going there
Saturday and Sunday and today we
basically have to get all of kind of the
backend stuff done where I want to go
get that SIM card
I want to go exchange some money and
then just get a few things that we might
need for the trip because it is outdoor
sort of adventure where we are going to
be doing a lot of hiking I am just so
grateful to have somebody here that is
it local obviously and that has gone
above and beyond to take care of things
so I don't have to kind of worry about
it or figure out the logistics so if you
guys ever have somebody kind enough to
host you in countries it is just the
best gift you can get to start off your
trip
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we gave it all we gave
we say
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Street jail
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alright guys so I am in the central part
of the city right now I'm just taking a
little walk by myself the Valentin is
actually in the dance class right now so
she dropped me off to do a little
touring around I think I'm gonna go get
a coffee somewhere and the good news is
that I was able to get a SIM card for
here and the price literally blew me
away I was kind of expecting maybe like
twenty thirty dollars for the month of
you know ten gigabytes or more in Canada
we'd pay like eighty ninety dollars for
something like that or even more and it
was eight Canadian dollars for twelve
gigabytes for phone for SMS for
everything like it's just amazing
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we safely safely
we
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we say
Street in jail
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preferable delicious receive um mr.
auntie what my anova petrushka Valentina
simply Viet yes Tommy see when your most
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the divided assists
the other day as anybody
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the bechamel
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cause uh huh the motors not Medici wash
the car
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this night means forever and so is
we say
we save
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they say
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register stadium
alright guys we are back at the house
now and I have officially completed my
first day here in Almaty kind of sort of
because we're actually getting on a bus
later tonight that is taking us to the
call-sign Lake region which is like five
six hours away from here and I guess the
reason that they have the bus so late is
that if you went at like six seven
o'clock you'd be stuck in traffic the
whole time if we take the bus at like
nine ten o'clock you kind of get out of
the city faster but it's basically an
overnight bus because we're gonna get in
it like 3:00 4:00 a.m. so once again I
really hope that I can get some sleep
and be somewhat functioning for the
couple days that we are going to be
there and just so you guys know I
actually have something new going on on
my patreon for those of you who are
already on there with me or who might be
interested in joining I'm actually
adding a new benefit to the twenty five
dollar and up category is kind of
special to this trip and any trip that I
do from now on where I thought it would
be really cool to send any of my patrons
a postcard from every country that I
visit so on this trip I mean there's
going to be quite a few so the one that
I think I'll be sending from Kazakhstan
will be from nurse'll ton or Astana
their capital so if you guys join me on
there I'll put a link in my description
if you guys would like to do that it
would mean so much to me and you can get
on my postcard sort of Club because I'll
be going obviously to Kazakhstan to
Russia to Ukraine and if I do extend my
trip I am thinking of going to Turkey
and then maybe somewhere else even who
knows so you'll be getting quite a bit
of postcards from me I thought it would
just be a fun thing to do to show my
appreciation because it is really so
helpful to have so many of you guys
supporting me on there and to help make
these kinds of trips possible so thank
you so much to all my existing patrons
that have been
me for this time and if you'd like to
join me that would be absolutely amazing
but other than that I hope you guys
enjoyed this little window into the city
and the start of my trip so I hope you
guys will join me on this adventure I
think there is gonna be some incredible
times to come so stay tuned keep being
your own kind of beautiful and I will
see you guys soon bye
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