we finally stopped traveling about an hour ago when we reached our flat in aktobe (i'm calling it a flat. i'm allowed to because it's not in the u.s.) the travel seemed endless, but it is finally over, about 80 hours after we left our house on wednesday.
i'm pretty freaking tired. i've only gotten about 8-9 hours of sleep since we started.
but we're here. and it's cold. they told it's -17 C right now. when our last flight took off, from almaty on our way to aktobe, the city of almaty quickly gave way to endless snow-covered steppe. when we went over the clouds, it didn't look all that much different from the ground.
