The road trip is over. I got a bit sick of driving, but it all turned out to be a lot more fun than I expected. Now I know where they filmed *Borat*. His homeland wasn’t shot in Romania, but in Vilnius. What a dreadful little town. Dirty and run-down. I really wasn’t expecting that. If you’re wondering where all those beat-up Mercedes 124s from Moscow went—the ones we used to have in unbelievable numbers—I can report that they’re living out their final days in Vilnius. What else was filmed in Vilnius besides *Borat*, you ask? *Cargo 200* (a grim 2007 Russian film), I reply. So, you get the idea. Palanga, on the other hand, is beyond praise. It has the pines, the dunes, the sea—everything. And none of it is the way I imagined it. It’s all better. But what absolutely floored me was this: when we were about 500 meters from our hotel, a deer literally ran across the road right in front of the car.