It is not easy to count and list the countries and travels that I had to deal with. There were tourist trips, cruises, business trips, and visiting trips. At the same time, you could always roughly imagine what would await you. But sometimes during the travels stories happened that, with all the wealth of imagination, could not have been imagined. These are non-standard stories that we had to encounter in our travels. But our whole life is also a big journey. Probably, amazing things happen to every person that do not fit into the ordinary framework. There are such events in my life, these are also non-standard plots. I will try to talk about them in this book. I have to repeat the pronoun “I” many times, but where can I go if this all happened to me, it happened. Perhaps, despite all my efforts, it was not possible to avoid a touch of “memoir” somewhere, for which I ask the readers’ indulgence. Sincerely yours, Sergei Ustimenko.