At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

You are always under the watchful eyes of the “Dear Leader” and “Great Leader” wherever you go in North Korea, including the metro. These portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il were spotted in a Pyongyang Metro car in September 2009. While we were only allowed in one metro car (seperate, of course, from the [...]

Below is some footage I shot of the Puhung station of the Pyongyang Metro. Entrance to the station: The incredibly long escalator ride with awesome music to soothe you as you descend into the metro: Station platform: Train arriving at the station:

More footage from our official North Korean tourism DVD. Enjoy the cheesy music, take in the beauty of the Pyongyang Metro, mock our incessant photo taking, and observe our cell phone obsessed guide (Hmm is there cell phone service that deep underground?).

“The metro, a monumental edifice in the era of the Workers’ Party, is providing the people with easy access to different parts of Pyongyang and is very instrumental in their ideological and cultural education.” – KCNA Of all the things we did in North Korea, taking a short trip on the Pyongyang metro was probably [...]

People late for school or work because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers or bosses. The New York City Transit division says it gives passengers the notes so they can prove they’re not lying about being delayed while riding the subway. Although in [...]

Am I the only person on this train who is not reading Love in the Time of Cholera? Oh, Charlie Wilson’s War? Yeah, read that years ago. If the Soviets had built this system, I’d be home by now…in a crowded, dilapidated apartment on the outskirts of Moscow. But still, I’d be home. What I [...]

A few weeks ago, before I landed my current job, I was joking with some friends that I was going to apply for a position with the WMATA. The WMATA, for all you non-Washingtonians, is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which, as you might have guessed from the ridiculously long name, is responsible for [...]

We finally made it to the Kremlin today.  Saw all the usual stuff – Cathedrals, Tsar Cannon, Tsar Bell, etc etc.The security around here has been tripled.  There are tons of militia men everywhere due to the suicide bombers.  They stand at the top of the escalators in the metro and pull aside anyone who [...]

Moscow, or Moskva, as it is called in Russian, is a very interesting city. Too bad we only spent three days there, because there is a ton of stuff to see. These are some pictures that didn’t really fit in any category. Kate, Will, and myself on the overnight train to Moscow. We had sleeping [...]