Back home in Wyoming: We flew for a total of about 12 hours and finally got home. The air here is smoky from the forest fires, but otherwise pleasant.
This was a nice trip, not too long, not too tiring, and not too fattening. We visited two new-to-us countries - Lithuania and Latvia - and a third location even harder to visit - the geographically noncontiguous Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. What makes the Baltic republics interesting geopolitically is that, if war breaks out in Europe, it will probably be Putin trying to fold these countries back into the Russian orbit.
One of our 2 checked suitcases went astray between Minneapolis-St. Paul and WY. We know it got as far as MSP as we had to get it off the carousel, take it through customs and recheck it. If it doesn't show up in the next couple of days I'm out a bunch of clothes.
Later ... the suitcase arrived at our door intact and undamaged some 22 hours later, as I expected it would.
