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    Ukraine/Poland ‘07 Roundup


    Yeah, I’m finally done writing about this trip. Only took me four months. Still, that’s a significant improvement over last year’s trip to the Caucasus, which I didn’t finish writing about until December. I haven’t the slightest idea why it takes me so much time to write about places I’ve gone, considering that my travel posts are what most people stumble across, and therefore e-mail me about.

    So, if you missed anything, here you go:
    1. LOT – The airline of the proletariat
    2. Ukraine Photos: Touring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
    3. Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part I: Dude, where’s your Geiger counter?
    4. Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part II: Liquidators Memorial / Kopachi / Catfish / Reactor 4
    5. Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part III: The ghosts of Pripyat
    6. Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part IV: Chisto?
    7. Kiev: Post-Chernobyl food run/4th of July dinner (or how I flew 6000 miles to partake in Oreo Madness)
    8. Ukraine Photos: Kiev
    9. Kiev: You’ve seen one Rodina Mat, you’ve seen ‘em all
    10. Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many dangerous people who wanna take things from Americans, and also kidnap them. Good night!
    11. Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves)
    12. Poland Photos: Krakow / Auschwitz-Birkenau / Wieliczka Salt Mine
    13. Kraków
    14. Auschwitz
    15. Wieliczka Salt Mine: Goin’ Deeper Underground


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    1 comment to Ukraine/Poland ‘07 Roundup

    • Anna

      Just want to thank you for the Chernobyl posts, I got caught and couldn’t stop reading. Very impressive photos too, some of them are really simple but add a good deal to the story of your trip. I have to come back and dig around your site some more, great stuff!

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