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“Travel through Russia, September 2011”
From Russia (2011), posted by Arlo Midgett on 11/10/2011 (200 items)
- макдоналдс!
- Andrey, Oksana, Andrey, and Andrey
- Hanging out in an Irish Pub in Moscow.
- Tea house
- Something tells me those are not stock headlights…
- Oksana’s niece’s fashion store
- Ira and Lena
- Yulya and her mom, Rita
- Yulya climbing
- Sorry, all out of HAGS.
- I like the shadows on her forehead
- Bliss!
- Lena and Yulya
- The view from the apartment
- Lena, Andrey, Oksana, and Natasha
- On the Trans-Siberian Railroad!
- Oksana watching Russia slide by
- This is what it was like for most of the 3 days, 14 hours
- Where we stashed our gear
- Sharing our room with smelly Russians
- I think this says, "You are neither faster than a speeding bullet, nor stronger …
- Church in Irkutsk
- Church
- Russian Orthodox church
- Closeup of mural on church
- Another church on the water
- This photo was the second attempt. I set the timer on the first and the camera comic…
- Walking through the park
- Eternal Flame
- Lover’s bridge
- Romance apparently sustains the lock industry around here
- Old school
- Do I have a travel blog? No, but let me tell you about my telegram newsletter!
- Who wouldn’t like to visit whowing of photographs?
- Good luck with that figure-skating thing.
- Comrades!
- I’m wet to the skin and slippery, thank you very much!
- Yes, comrade, that’s a great thing to say while visiting the States during the height…
- I’ve traveled around the world and not once have I needed to know how to say "tr…
- Old Soviet radio. Works as good as the day it was bought (meaning, it was probably c…
- Tea Time!
- Fall colors
- Penguin
- First view of Lake Baikal
- At the scenic overlook
- Train station
- Train station
- Random van and landscaping
- Russians. Some we knew, others we didn’t.
- House on the lake
- Oksana on the lake’s breakwater
- I had to at least put my hand in…
- Sitting by the train
- Old soviet train
- Closeup on the hammer and sickle
- Posing for a pic
- Oksana taking family photos
- The results
- Old Siberian structures
- On the drive home
- Siberian road
- Angara… some famous Lake Baikal boat
- More of Oksana’s relatives came to the airport to see us off
- Coming in for a landing in Kamchatka Reminds me a lot of Juneau, Alaska.
- Aeroflot
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy airport
- Waiting for our luggage
- Koryaksky Volcano
- Stopping for a photo op on the drive up to the volcano
- Those vests were some of the best things we packed!
- Natasha’s dog
- Koryaksky’s peak
- The volcano between the other two
- Avacha Volcano, showing a little activity
- Looking back the way we came
- Oksana’s brother, Andrey
- Oksana, Andrey, and the Wind
- Me and the volcano
- Oksana getting them to goof off a little
- 3, 2, 1… JUMP!
- During the Cold War, Avacha Bay was known as "The Hornet’s Nest" because of…
- I spotted a fox up on the hillside. He wouldn’t let me get close, though.
- Small dome
- Pine Nuts!
- Groundhog (?)
- Came across a stolen car, burning on a trail by the river
- By the time we drove back down, the clouds had already formed…
- Red tomato
- Andrey and Natasha’s greenhouse
- Tomatoes on the vine
- om nom nom
- Oksana’s getting pretty good at taking flower photos…
- More flowers
- Red berries
- Sweet peas
- Cucumbers
- Hanging tomatoes
- About harvest time…!
- Brown Bear
- Setting up for a few test casts
- Fishing near Oktyabrskiy
- Posing by a river that empties into the Okhotsk Sea
- This is what a year on the road does to you
- Oktyabrskiy
- Trying our lines in a new place
- Beautiful morning
- Beautiful stream
- Oksana trying her luck
- Andrey and I put on the hip-waders and hiked around the bend
- A bad day fishing is still better than a good day working!
- Getting ready
- Andrey gets the first fish!
- At least she caught something that day…!
- Unhooking my fish for me
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, or as we like to call it, "PK"
- A beautiful fall day
- Self portrait on the beach
- Moments before Oksana high-centered us in this fine black sand…
- The Three Brothers
- Adeen… dva… tree…
- Is she trying to look at the tiny version of her brother on her shoulder?
- The Three Brothers
- Volcano in the distance
- Observatory? Radar station?
- At the top of the scenic viewpoint at the mouth of the bay
- The view from said scenic viewpoint
- Oksana over Avacha Bay
- Needs a shave
- A long, protected beach
- Three brothers, up close
- A peek at the city
- Avacha River
- Bridge in early morning light
- After hiking out to the bar
- Wearing every layer of clothes I have
- Gearing up
- Tying one on
- Heading into the mist
- Fishing at sunrise
- First cast
- Standing in the river
- Chilly morning
- Lenin statue
- Oksana, Masha, and Regina
- Out for a walk
- Jelly-fishin’?
- Stingers
- One big sea lion
- Pacific coastline
- Summer colors
- Yarick
- I want to be out there, with them!
- Let me out!
- Hrm.
- Berry picking
- Rose hips
- Blustery
- Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
- Hot water pipes They heat the entire city by circulating hot water from a steam plant
- Awesome sun dog
- Fresh mineral water
- Malkey hot springs
- A pool all to myself
- End-of-the-season at the hot springs
- Driving up to the geothermic field
- Fall colors before the first snows
- Stopping for lunch and feeding a stray
- Self portraits gone wrong!
- Oksana and a volcano
- Andrey goofing off a little
- A cloudless sky and the view back the way we came
- Going back down a few hours later, the clouds rolled in
- Power lines
- Woooo!
- The Mutnovka geothermal power station
- Oksana exploring the geothermic field
- Boiling mud
- I climbed the hill for a better view
- We ended up hiking all the way up to that active crater
- High pressure vent
- Still snow on the ground
- I peed on a dry rock. It immediately started to boil. I did not know that Oksana wa…
- See ya later!
- Tundra
- Dew drops
- Oksana and her friend, Oksana
- Greenhouse harvest (one day’s worth!)
- Last (Kamchatka) supper
- New cathedral being built in PK
- I like the way the center dome reflects the others
- Clouds forming on our last day in Kamchatka
- 4:30am view outside our apartment window
- Just outside Red Square
- GUM
- Red Square
- Oksana in Red Square
- Kremlin tower
- You think Nikon knew what it was doing when it placed that billboard in everyone’s ph…
- Statue before St. Basil’s Cathedral
- St. Basil’s Cathedral
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