DESTINATION ODESA UKRAINE (This is a 13 hour drive from Berehove, Ukraine.)
A TRIP FULL OF SURPRISES
FRANK
Last year I met a man named Frank Grabanski living in Berehove. He is a Christian, loves Jesus, and loves to talk to people about him. I asked him to join me on my trip to Odesa.
We prayed and asked God to go before us and meet our needs along the way, meaning our plan was to evangelize wherever God directed in Odesa.
DIRT ROAD
I was told that along the way a part of the highway was missing; simply a dirt road. I didn’t believe it and thought I must have not have been paying attention to the conversation.
Sure enough, along the way the highway turned into a very rough dirt road and I thought I must have missed a a turn. We traveled about a kilometer – 2/3 of a mile, and drove back onto the highway. I have no explanation or understanding of this anomaly. Accept it and go on.
PIGS
So we’re driving and come upon 4 pigs crossing the highway. One huge sow, two piglets (weighing less than 100 pounds – good eating size) and the fourth larger than the sow, still in the bushes along the side of the road. I didn’t have time to take a picture. I was mainly concerned with getting past them without hitting them.
ODESA
We arrived in Odesa about 9:30 pm. We were tired, hungry and needed a place to stay. We stopped at McDonald’s to get a quick bite and started trying to make arrangements for a place to stay.
We called a couple of places. I asked one receptionist to send me an address and we would come to her hotel. She said, “tell me the region you’re in and I will tell you how to get here. I told her I didn’t know the region. She would not send the address to my phone (I have a Ukrainian number). Again she repeated herself and said she needed to know what region I was in and she would tell me how to get to her hotel. It was a useless conversation so I hung up.
“Hotel near me”
We went there and they had a room. The accommodations were great. So thankful.