Gary, Julia and I went to visit Nzhnyaya Sinyachikha. Don't ask me to pronounce that. It is a very old town with a beautiful Church and an exhibit of traditional wooden architecture. Nearby is the city of Alapaevsk. On the map it looked like about a 45 minute drive, but it is down a gravel road that is mostly used by loggers. Gary started getting nervous about 45 minutes into the journey with no end in sight and a low gas gage. We saw two men on the side of the road and stopped to ask them how much farther the town was. That just made him more nervous, since one of them was carrying an axe and they were coming out of the forest looking pretty rough! We were about half way there, we made it fine, but it does get a bit unnerving as the road shrinks and shrinks and the countryside gets wilder and wilder. It was bitter cold that day, but still well worth the drive. The church was beautiful and sat just above a river with fishermen fishing and cows milling around. The wooden architecture displayed was great! And when we drove to the next little town we realized that Tchaikovsky had lived there when he was about 10 years old. It was too late in the day to go to the museum there, so I look forward to another visit on a warmer day.