Our time in Suzdal was short, but the next leg of our trip across Russia was the big one: 52 hours on a train from Vladimir to Tomsk. One st...

I have to admit that food in Russia did not really wow me, so trying to keep in the theme for Russia for the course of the transsiberian arc...

Our next stop after Moscow was a sleepy little town called Suzdal. Suzdal is located a few hours outside of Moscow and once was an important...

Our trip to Moscow was overnight on train #1, The Red Arrow, which departs St. Petersburg with the The Hymn to the Great City playing t...

What could be better than food prepared by the nuns and monks of an orthodox church? I've already mentioned that the churches in Russia ...

This is where is all started. St. Petersburg, a city built on the order of Peter the Great by an army of conscripted peasants in a place n...

This is actually the first of a story arch. Between June 22nd and July 9th, I traveled across Russia along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, ev...

While in Russia, I had to take the opportunity to stop by the McDonald's located a block from Red Square and about 500 feet from their T...

After two years in Sweden, I just moved back to Seattle and the USA. While living in Sweden has been fantastic and a welcome experience, it...

What do you get when you put a grill on a boat in a place with lots of fresh local fish? You get the Tarihi Eminönü Balik Ekmek and the othe...

I love birds. In Mongolia and Kazakhstan, golden eagles are kept as hunting birds, along the same tradition as falconry in other areas...

10,000,000 miles. That is an amazing amount of miles to rack up, and those are flown miles, not redeemable frequent flyer miles! "As...

Unfortunately, I can't remember what airline this was on (it was before I tracked it in detail), but these were on a flight of mine awh...

I'm currently in Russia and without a computer, but here's a sample of some of the places I've been so far. When I get back, I w...