Greetings!
Today, we crossed into Latvia. Before we left Lithuania, however, we visited an underground Russian-made missle silo. Home to four of the most powerful missles developed by the Soviet Union, it was decommissioned in 1978, and never fired even one of the missles. We were able to climb down into the severaal levels of the silo, and were guided through each by a local resident.
Powered by huge generators and rooms full of electrical panels, the installation walls contained posters and military documents from the period. A special section detailed the events and materials from the 1962 Cuban missle crisis. Videos also provided broadcasts from around the world reporting on the daily events.
Just before leaving LIthuania, we visited the Hill of Crosses. Over 100,000 wooden and metal crosses, of all sizes and purposes, have been placed by citizens on a hill just out of sight from the main highway. Filling a need to remember every victim of hatred and war, the structure has been a source of pride for those anti-government voices for sixty years.
www.zelp.bio is the website of a farm just inside the Latvian border on which 43 hectares of sea buckthorn is grown and used to produce 20 different products. Lip balm, hand cream, juices, oils, and many other nutritional and skin care uses are resulting from this couple's hard work and innovation.
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