That sucks about your cold. I think it is very rude for people to go to work sick much less get on a plane where the air is recycled so much. I would be everyone susceptible to that illness on the flight got it.

Congrats on going to Russia ,Din. We drive over the river all the time and in fact a lot of the communities in northern sask are only accessible by road in the winter and most of it is over frozen lakes. I may go for my Class A1(truckers license) just so I can get a job doing that. The pay is excellent and the risk is not as bad as it is psychologically terrifying.

If you get a chance to see the show "Ice road truckers" it has the skinny.