In 2007 I was invited to travel to Tajikistan. And as the story goes, we were held in the airport due to the strangest things happening there. And if you have ever been through T-stan’s airport, it is simply strange anyways. It’s a whole cultural experience. That is by far the only time I have ever had to wrestle with people to get into the building. (Not exaggerating).
And not only that, there were people trying to take drugs out of the country. This is 2007, so it is a whole different world. The customs folks took the drugs, piled them beside the area and ushered people through. So crazy. And that doesn’t even get me started on how you have to bribe everyone to get through security in the first place. (A bribe consists of about $ .50 US).
So, once we get through, the plane is held due to freak storms, we are stuck for hours and when we get to Moscow, we miss our flight which forces us to stay until after our Visas run out. So, we leave that night and stay in the hotel next to the airport which is when I recorded this movie. Once we returned since our Visas ran out over night, we were taken by soldiers who held us at gun point in a small international zone where we had to stay. We could not leave due to the Visas and we could not stay because we had no Visa. They threatened jail for 6 months. And we wrote letters to the Cosnulate begging forgiveness and promising never to allow Visas to run out in Russia again.
Needless to say when I come through US customs even today, they mention three countries I have been to where I had issues and Russian Federation is one of them. They always laugh at me.
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