Eight Days and Counting

Is this my destination?

Irkutsk?

Of course not--it's Cross Plains, Wisconsin in the year of the great snows 2008. Certainly prepared me for a trip to Siberia.

Actually, the weather in Irkutsk is virtually the same as much of Wisconsin, with temperatures in April in the 40's most days. Looking to the day of our arrival the high is predicted to be 52, so not quite balmy Florida, but not so bad for a Wisconsin Spring.