The Belarus landscape reminded me of home in Ontario, Canada a generation ago: October fields with hay, potatoes and other crops already harvested. The trees reminded me of Canada too: deciduous and evergreens, many familiar species. I remember having a similar observation when I travelled in Poland a few years ago.

I took the rainbow in the photo to be a good omen that, despite the old noisy van and its problematic GPS, we would indeed get to our destination.