If they made shirts that said “I <3 Chita,” I would buy one and wear it all the time. ‘NICE’ & ‘TRAIN’. Two words that up to now I hadn’t considered being utterable in the same sentence. Nevertheless. The train was nice (that is, from Ulan-Ude to Chita). Relatively speaking, of course. Yes, the Russian [...]
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Spring Break (Days 2-3): Chita rocks
Posted: March 31, 2010 in Far East (Spring), Out of TownTags: Assumption Cathedral, Baskin Robbins, Chita, daylight savings time, Decembrists, food, huge green tube, Jerusalem, Lenin, museum, Siberian culture, Sovietism, Subway, train, Ukranian cuisine
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Spring Break (Day 1): ‘Trevoga’ redeemed in U.U.
Posted: March 28, 2010 in Far East (Spring)Tags: Buryatia, cold, datsan, friends, guide book, hotel, Irish, jungle animal, Lenin, Lenin head, museum, тревога, трудность, Russian MTV, Snow, Sovietism, train, WiFi
Russians have a word (“trevoga”) for the spiritual qualms that you experience before traveling until you’re safely seated on your train/plane seat. I call it stress. Whatever it is, I feel it. The day of our departure, I went straight from classes to my internship, and then straight to choir rehearsal, leaving early around 8 [...]
Week 8: Mongolia, Day 2
Posted: November 3, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: datsan, food, German Opera, monastery, Mongolia, museum, pizza & coke, survival, The English, train
Day 2 (Sun., Oct. 25): 22 steps to a [pick-your-adjective] day in UB City 1. Know that UB City is the somewhat gangsta’ name for Ulaan Baator so that you can feel hip and cool in conversations about the capital of Mongolia. Facts: 1.5 million people of Mongolia’s 2.5 million population live in UB. UB [...]
Week 8: Mongolia, Night 0.5 and Day 1
Posted: November 2, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: 350.org, Canadians, fellow foreigners, food, Mongolia, museum, Naushki, packing, passport control, rest, sugar, train
The saga of my trip with Romany to not-Russia, almost-Far-East Asia begins. To sum it up, and in honor of Asia, I’ll even compose a little haiku (with full knowledge that the haiku is, in fact, not a Mongolian poetry form). Train across the steppe. UB. Camels. Really far. Russia seems better. Publishable almost, right? [...]
350 action on the Russian-Mongolian border
Posted: October 20, 2009 in Иркутск, Out of TownTags: 350.org, climate change, environment, Mongolia, train
350.org is an organization, which has declared October 24, 2009 an International Day of Climate Action. Since my co-traveler to Mongolia, Romany Redman, and I are interested parties, and fall into the category of “international,” we’re planning on participating en route to Mongolia. But we need ideas for our “climate action”! Other climate actions include [...]
Train game, and talk over ‘tee’
Posted: October 14, 2009 in ИркутскTags: Bolshevik confiscations, host fam, Revolution, t-ball, tea, train
Tatyana Eduardovna, perhaps my only hope for survival in this country, sadly, has left on the train for a few weeks to help their daughter care for her new son/their grandson. Like I told my parents, she promised that she’d be back in 2-3 weeks, “soon enough,” and that I’d be fine under the care [...]
