Privolzhsky

A discovery of Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Chuvash, Tatar, Mari, Mokshan, Kalmyk, Bashkir, Udmurt, Altay, Kazakh from Bayan-Olgiy, Mongol, Han, Hui, Uighur, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian people and territories.

A journey by motorcycle through Europe and Ukraine to Russia and the Stans and return.

We're planning to travel the worldand the whiteboard keeps filling up. And TravelPod makes a pretty map for us.

"We are damned and we are dead All god's children to be sent To our perfect place in the sun And in the dirt" - Marilyn Manson Day 2 dawned bright and rickety. The European Shithead Challenge had been concluded the night before, and I had failed ...

We left our homestay yesterday after stocking up at the supermarket for the trip (see Beans picture). We boarded our train from Karaznasky station bound for Ekaterinburg (main city in the Urals region of Siberia) - Border between Europe and Asia. ...

A number of readers have asked about the equipment I'm using to produce this travel blog. The answers have been posted in various entries but here's a complete summation of Travel Technologies used, with a few additional notes since I wrote the ...