Quote of the trip, thus far

A group of eight young Americans stayed a night in my hostel. They're in a Christian rock band came to Russia to perform in Archangel, which is way up north, on the coast near Finland.

There was also a guy named Daniel, who had spent two weeks in St Petersburg for a business class and was doing some sightseeing before heading home to Innsbruck, Austria.

We were all introducing ourselves. The missionary group is from California. One of them asked Daniel where he was from and he replied "I'm from the same place as your governor."

"Oh, cool, Sacramento."

I don't mean to sound harsh. Daniel speaks perfect English with only a slight accent, and the musicians were all quite nice (and educated). But it was pretty darn funny.