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  • Road Ruminations – 24jun08

    George Rebane Estonian Health Care.  In Viljandi Jo Ann and I were surprised to learn that our friend Bruno, who is a surgeon at the large provincial hospital (pictured on the horizon), is paid less than we pay our yard and garden help in Nevada County.  The country has a socialized health care system of…

  • Road Ruminations – 23jun08

    Jo Ann Rebane Some cultural observations from Estonia: • The Estonian people are physically beautiful, especially those in the big cities of Tallinn, Viljandi and Tartu.• Service staff (hotel front desk, wait staff, store clerks) seem to have a aloof, couldn’t care less attitude.  Friendly, helpful personnel are the exception.  We’ve had particularly helpful young…

  • Road Ruminations – 22jun08

    George Rebane Today was another one of those days which makes you think whether you took the wrong turn somewhere and wound up in a travelogue film.  We took a trip down to Otepää (unpronounceable by tongues born and bred in the US), a resort and winter sports training community in southeast Estonia about 30…

  • Road Ruminations – 21jun08

    George Rebane We arrived in Tartu – Estonia’s university city – early this afternoon after a short 40-mile drive from Viljandi that passed by Võrtsjärv, Estonia’s largest lake.  Again, it was a beautiful drive along a countryside where every community has assembled the makings of the annual and traditional very large ‘John’s Day’ bonfire.  This…

  • Road Ruminations – 20jun08

    Jo Ann Rebane This is a land where we are very comfortable.  Not because we have our very own language expert and native Estonian speaker along (the language is very hard for the foreigner to pronounce, much less read).  We’re comfortable because the countryside is tidy and homes well tended.  The roads are good and…

  • Road Ruminations – 19jun08

    George Rebane Yesterday morning we left a rainy Tallinn and drove south toward my birthplace Viljandi.  The country outside of the capital continues the style, wealth, and mood of the capital – the highways, fields, and forests are modern, well-signed, and as neat as a pin.  Estonia is, perhaps, the only country in history to…

  • Road Ruminations – 15jun08

    George Rebane We landed in Tallinn, Estonia about noon today after a short flight up from Frankfurt, Germany on Estonian Air (Boeing 737).  This completes a circuit I started in 1944.  The perfect hosts Hans and Gitta had breakfast ready for us at 630am, and then drove us to the airport on Sunday morning traffic-free…

  • Road Ruminations – 14jun08

    George Rebane We arrived in Frankfurt am Main yesterday, descending through a cloud filled sky that sprinkled the countryside with brief showers.  This reminded me of the exact scenes I saw 45 years ago as a young second lieutenant arriving in Germany for my first duty station after Artillery School.  That eight-hour flight had been…

  • Tagasi Eestisse

    George Rebane Tomorrow we leave on a trip that has been anticipated for about fifty years and has been in various stages of planning for about twenty-five years.  I am returning to Estonia, the little Baltic country where I was born, which we left as refugees in the spring of 1944 during the depth of…

  • Southern California Fires – Part III: Lessons Learned

    George Rebane This concludes the series on wildfires that started with Part I: Our House Burns and continued in Part II: Our House is Still There!. During the hours we spent with the fire crews who were sheltered in our house, we learned a lot about the nature of wild fires and how they could…

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