St. Petersburg, Russia Feb 27, 2014

We flew west to St. Petersburg. The long approach through the air gave us a spectacular view as the pilot seemed to tilt the plane just to show off the panorama. The waterside city seemed far more peaceful than it’s capital neighbor Moscow to the east as the...

Moscow, Russia Feb 26, 2014

Ok so Russia is huge. Like, needs to span 2 continents huge. Even, could be its own continent huge. And frankly, with the changes in less than a century from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation…as a Tsarist, Bolshevik, Communist, and...

Special thanks to H15 in Warsaw

The Exchange is currently in Warsaw Poland after the fifth show of the In A World Like This tour with The Backstreet Boys. The crowd last night was amazing and we got the chance to explore around the city a little bit today. Warsaw is the epitome of a European...

Warsaw, Poland Feb 23, 2014

Off so soon and this time to somewhere I’d never thought I’d go. Poland is honestly a place that, maybe wrongfully, people just leave off the tourist destination list. Perhaps the stigma of “war-torn” still hangs over the country smack in the...

Milan, Italy Feb 22, 2014

Late at night (3am) I pulled up into a small alleyway in Bergamo, outside of Milan. I’d dropped off the road crew at the hotel and made the hour trek out to pick up Maria. She’d been staying with her cousin waiting for the show. I knew that I could see her...