Russia Photos (2011)

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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

: Bliss!

: I like the shadows on her forehead

: Yulya climbing

: Sorry, all out of HAGS.

: Lena and Yulya

: Yulya and her mom, Rita

: The view from the apartment

: Lena, Andrey, Oksana, and Natasha

: I think this says, “You are neither faster than a speeding bullet, nor stronger than …

: Oksana watching Russia slide by

: Sharing our room with smelly Russians

: On the Trans-Siberian Railroad!

: This is what it was like for most of the 3 days, 14 hours

: Where we stashed our gear

: Church in Irkutsk

: Russian Orthodox church

: Closeup of mural on church

: Another church on the water

: Walking through the park

: This photo was the second attempt. I set the timer on the first and the camera comic…

: Lover’s bridge

: Romance apparently sustains the lock industry around here

: Old school

: Eternal Flame

: Church

: Who wouldn’t like to visit whowing of photographs?

: Yes, comrade, that’s a great thing to say while visiting the States during the height…

: Do I have a travel blog? No, but let me tell you about my telegram newsletter!

: I’ve traveled around the world and not once have I needed to know how to say “transis…

: Good luck with that figure-skating thing.

: I’m wet to the skin and slippery, thank you very much!

: Comrades!

: 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

: I had to at least put my hand in…

: Oksana on the lake’s breakwater

: Old soviet train

: Posing for a pic

: Sitting by the train

: Closeup on the hammer and sickle

: 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

: Natasha’s dog

: Koryaksky’s peak

: The volcano between the other two

: 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 the nucle…

: I spotted a fox up on the hillside. He wouldn’t let me get close, though.

: Avacha Volcano, showing a little activity

: 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

: 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

: The Three Brothers

: Observatory? Radar station?

: The Three Brothers

: The view from said scenic viewpoint

: At the top of the scenic viewpoint at the mouth of the bay

: A long, protected beach

: A peek at the city

: Self portrait on the beach

: Moments before Oksana high-centered us in this fine black sand…

: Is she trying to look at the tiny version of her brother on her shoulder?

: Adeen… dva… tree…

: Three brothers, up close

: Volcano in the distance

: Needs a shave

: Oksana over Avacha Bay

: Stopping for a photo op on the drive up to the volcano

: Those vests were some of the best things we packed!

: Fishing near Oktyabrskiy

: Setting up for a few test casts

: Posing by a river that empties into the Okhotsk Sea

: This is what a year on the road does to you

: Bridge in early morning light

: After hiking out to the bar

: Fishing at sunrise

: Heading into the mist

: First cast

: Standing in the river

: Tying one on

: Wearing every layer of clothes I have

: Chilly morning

: Gearing up

: Avacha River

: Jelly-fishin’?

: Out for a walk

: Stingers

: One big sea lion

: Lenin statue

: Oksana, Masha, and Regina

: Pacific coastline

: Hrm.

: Rose hips

: Summer colors

: Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula

: Blustery

: I want to be out there, with them!

: Yarick

: Let me out!

: Berry picking

: 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

: Stopping for lunch and feeding a stray

: Fall colors before the first snows

: Oksana and a volcano

: A cloudless sky and the view back the way we came

: Self portraits gone wrong!

: Andrey goofing off a little

: 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…

: Tundra

: See ya later!

: Dew drops

: Going back down a few hours later, the clouds rolled in

: 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

: Oksana in Red Square

: GUM

: St. Basil’s Cathedral

: 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

: Red Square

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