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Planned route– east to west
Khabarovsk summary
First day in Komsomolsk na Amure
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Komsomolsk-on-Amur famous
Komsomolsk and first day on the BAM
Tynda!
Arrival to Severobaikal’sk
Goudzhekit
First walk to Baikal
Yes, I’m in SIberia but what I really needed was a bikini
Ulan Ude
The amazing Dusya
Back in the USSR
Best day maybe ever
Moscow is old hat to me
Rachel’s Parents Go To Russia
…and we’re back!
Introducing our very special guests
Failing at blogging
Miami to Moscow….finally.
Daniel– extra hands and extra brain
From Tretyakov to Tchaikovsky…
Victory Day
Georgian dinner
The Kremlin and, later, dear friends
To St. Petersburg with some Mozart
Tatiana, and other beautiful things
Catherine’s Palace and Putin’s birthday restaurant
The Hermitage..and a late night for me
Peterhof, the Cottage Palace, the metro, and a surprise dessert
Rich and poor….a day with a theme
Volga Volga!
Why are you going to Russia in November?
Arrived…exhausted…amused.
The Russian Academy of Sciences
The Irony Museum
“Everyone needs to be proud of something”–Andrei
Wednesday afternoon
Saratov: delightful City of Nerds
Three sweaty, smelly men
Kazan is BOOMING!
A fucked-up travel day that was entirely my fault
How’s that mid-life crisis going?
An afternoon in Chuvashia
Razdolye Part 1
Razdolye Part 2
Leaving Razdolye and “tour” of Yoshkar-Ola
Back to Moscow and saying goodbye
Working Girl
Auspicious start! Sort of.
Getting comfortable
Doing everything in one day
Girls and pies
The murder that shook the world, at least for a few days
The almighty test of the rental kitchen– or everything you ever wanted to know about differences in food products
Everyone has to pee somewhere
International Women’s Day
Wrapping things up
May thru Sept.
Rocket to Russia
It will always be better than it has been
Big Brother Comes to Russia
Are Russians Friendly?
TASS is authorized to declare….
To be continued…
Arkhyz
October means back to Moscow
Don’t try to make Sonoran dogs in Moscow
The triumph of Sharif’s photo session
First night in Stavropol
The Conference begins…
The Wheels on the Bus
The Special Astrophysical Observatory
Lunch in the Caucasus
Ufa
A Visit to the Moscow Asylum Office
Friendship of Peoples
My Tatar neighborhood
An American, a Chechen, a gay Uzbek, and an Old Believer walk into a palace…
Ufa, Old and New
Being an American Kid in a Foreign Country
On The Town!
You might be a diplomat if…
The Fulbright
Some unavoidable politics
Belgorod the Beautiful
Parkovaya 5
What my days are like so far
Russian Internet Dating
A little more about Belgorod
За Грибами
30 years of sacrifice
Always say yes
Belgorod vs. Tucson
I followed the Moskva down to Gorky Park
Hanging with the Babushki
Media Roundup
Winter– it’s no joke
The cheerful cow
Belgorod: What I miss now and what I will miss later
Saudade in Belgorod
Conference Season
Politicians never listen
Detour to Hanoi
A day without Russians
Oh, those Russians!
Misc!
Article and a Controversy
22 Ways Russia was Hipster Before Hipster Was Even a Thing
My article in Watermark
Medovik|Медовик
We are what we eat
Tucson could be a little more like Belgorod
Russia-adjacent
Welcome to Tbilisi
To the west– Borjomi and farther
Things I noticed about Georgia
Sights close to Tbilisi
Up into the Racha mountains
Crimea
Shhh…I’m not sure I’m supposed to be here
Apparently I knew nothing about Crimea
Balaklava– not the knit mask
Sevastopol
Yalta
April 2018
“Aeroflot is always exciting!”
Moscow’s new park
Novuss
BAM & Baikal
Planned route– east to west
Khabarovsk summary
First day in Komsomolsk na Amure
Sunrise in Komsomolsk
Komsomolsk-on-Amur famous
Komsomolsk and first day on the BAM
Tynda!
Arrival to Severobaikal’sk
Goudzhekit
First walk to Baikal
Yes, I’m in SIberia but what I really needed was a bikini
Ulan Ude
The amazing Dusya
Back in the USSR
Best day maybe ever
Moscow is old hat to me
Rachel’s Parents Go To Russia
…and we’re back!
Introducing our very special guests
Failing at blogging
Miami to Moscow….finally.
Daniel– extra hands and extra brain
From Tretyakov to Tchaikovsky…
Victory Day
Georgian dinner
The Kremlin and, later, dear friends
To St. Petersburg with some Mozart
Tatiana, and other beautiful things
Catherine’s Palace and Putin’s birthday restaurant
The Hermitage..and a late night for me
Peterhof, the Cottage Palace, the metro, and a surprise dessert
Rich and poor….a day with a theme
Volga Volga!
Why are you going to Russia in November?
Arrived…exhausted…amused.
The Russian Academy of Sciences
The Irony Museum
“Everyone needs to be proud of something”–Andrei
Wednesday afternoon
Saratov: delightful City of Nerds
Three sweaty, smelly men
Kazan is BOOMING!
A fucked-up travel day that was entirely my fault
How’s that mid-life crisis going?
An afternoon in Chuvashia
Razdolye Part 1
Razdolye Part 2
Leaving Razdolye and “tour” of Yoshkar-Ola
Back to Moscow and saying goodbye
Working Girl
Auspicious start! Sort of.
Getting comfortable
Doing everything in one day
Girls and pies
The murder that shook the world, at least for a few days
The almighty test of the rental kitchen– or everything you ever wanted to know about differences in food products
Everyone has to pee somewhere
International Women’s Day
Wrapping things up
May thru Sept.
Rocket to Russia
It will always be better than it has been
Big Brother Comes to Russia
Are Russians Friendly?
TASS is authorized to declare….
To be continued…
Arkhyz
October means back to Moscow
Don’t try to make Sonoran dogs in Moscow
The triumph of Sharif’s photo session
First night in Stavropol
The Conference begins…
The Wheels on the Bus
The Special Astrophysical Observatory
Lunch in the Caucasus
Ufa
A Visit to the Moscow Asylum Office
Friendship of Peoples
My Tatar neighborhood
An American, a Chechen, a gay Uzbek, and an Old Believer walk into a palace…
Ufa, Old and New
Being an American Kid in a Foreign Country
On The Town!
You might be a diplomat if…
The Fulbright
Some unavoidable politics
Belgorod the Beautiful
Parkovaya 5
What my days are like so far
Russian Internet Dating
A little more about Belgorod
За Грибами
30 years of sacrifice
Always say yes
Belgorod vs. Tucson
I followed the Moskva down to Gorky Park
Hanging with the Babushki
Media Roundup
Winter– it’s no joke
The cheerful cow
Belgorod: What I miss now and what I will miss later
Saudade in Belgorod
Conference Season
Politicians never listen
Detour to Hanoi
A day without Russians
Oh, those Russians!
Misc!
Article and a Controversy
22 Ways Russia was Hipster Before Hipster Was Even a Thing
My article in Watermark
Medovik|Медовик
We are what we eat
Tucson could be a little more like Belgorod
Russia-adjacent
Welcome to Tbilisi
To the west– Borjomi and farther
Things I noticed about Georgia
Sights close to Tbilisi
Up into the Racha mountains
Crimea
Shhh…I’m not sure I’m supposed to be here
Apparently I knew nothing about Crimea
Balaklava– not the knit mask
Sevastopol
Yalta
April 2018
“Aeroflot is always exciting!”
Moscow’s new park
Novuss
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