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- Capitalist Pigs
- Classic Russia - Encounters With Lenin - A Room For The Night - Body Language - Crashing in Yekaterinburg - Grudka - The Things Between Europeans and Asians - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Bowling For Siberia - Lucky Lazy Day - The Real Siberia - No Aunt May - Deadpan Looks By The Deep Blue Lake - Gangs of Siberia - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Asia |
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August 08, 2004
Capitalist PigsDAY 285: Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I always knew Russia as the U.S.S.R., the Soviet Union, a place where citizens living under the system of Communism drank vodka and stood on really long lines at the government...Read this entry Classic RussiaDAY 286: "What does this mean?" I asked my traveling companion Sam, showing him a digital photo of a protest rally I took like an obnoxious American tourist by a statue of Karl Marx in Moscow's Revolution Square. There was...Read this entry Encounters With LeninDAY 287: "Is it Communist or Capitalist today?" I asked Sam from my bed. "It's looking pretty Communist out there," he answered, looking out the window. "Communist" was cloudy and grey and "capitalist" was bright and sunny. "Alright!" I said....Read this entry A Room For The NightDAY 288: With my traveling buddy Sam gone, so went my room to go halfsies on in a prime location in Moscow, right outside Red Square. In true The Global Trip fashion, I had failed to make a reservation for...Read this entry August 11, 2004
Body LanguageDAY 289: In the 19th century, America was on a conquest to expand its territory. Geographically, that meant head out to the old west, back in a time when it was the new west. Meanwhile in Russia, a similar phenomenon...Read this entry Crashing in YekaterinburgDAY 290: The No. 118 train continued to cruise eastbound to the outer limits of Europe as the sun came up to start a new Trans-Siberian day. Despite the stereotype that there's nothing in the region but snow, it was...Read this entry GrudkaDAY 291: "Breakfast is ready," Tonya said, wearing an apron from the kitchen. "Okay." "It was ready an hour ago." "Oh, sorry!" I apologized. The night before they asked me what time to have breakfast ready by and I told...Read this entry The Things Between Europeans and AsiansDAY 292: The continents Europe and Asia are separated naturally by the Ural Mountain Range, which extends from the northwest of Kazakhstan to the Kara Sea in the Arctic Circle. The mountain range is fairly wide as most mountain ranges...Read this entry The Good, The Bad and The UglyDAY 293: The day before in the Yekaterinburg Guide Center office, I had met a South African guy doing the Trans-Siberian trip like me. He too was somewhat upset that so far it hadn't been the international party on wheels...Read this entry Bowling For SiberiaDAY 294: "So is Novosibirsk what you thought it to be?" my 20-year-old host Julia asked me at dinner that night. "I didn't think there'd be a city this big here. I thought I'd be staying in some small house...Read this entry Lucky Lazy DayDAY 295: When I boarded the No. 8 train the night before, I was anxious. Would I be assigned to a second-class compartment with three drunken Russian mafia-types again, or encounter a sexy, but questionable blonde bombshell in a black...Read this entry The Real SiberiaDAY 296: The sun rose around six to burn off the morning mist of the Siberian countryside. I was awake before my alarm clock set for seven -- my internal body clock was all out of wack with the constant...Read this entry August 15, 2004
No Aunt MayDAY 297: Living in a homestay with Nina was sort of being like Spiderman's alter ego Peter Parker. I lived in my own room with an old woman with white hair who, without me might be pretty lonely, just like...Read this entry August 16, 2004
Deadpan Looks By The Deep Blue LakeDAY 298: From what I had heard, many travelers on the Trans-Siberian Railway only stop once on the way from Moscow to the Far East in Irkutsk in order to see nearby Lake Baikal (rhymes with "bagel"). The shimmering deep...Read this entry Gangs of SiberiaDAY 299: As a tourist, you don't really have to worry about the Russian mafia, so my Lonely Planet guidebook says; they are only involved in high-scale crimes involving big business or bribing police or politicians, like the Italian mafia...Read this entry August 19, 2004
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like AsiaDAY 300: It's somewhat fitting that I stumbled upon a interracial wedding party taking a big new family portrait in Soviet Square in Ulan Ude (picture below, which I took by posing as one of the many wedding photographers). The...Read this entry |