Kyltuk, Siberia
Господин Miller of Shelekhov. Bread. Vodka. Omul Fish. Lake Baikal.
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Kyltuk, Siberia
Kyltuk is a small, 400 year old village on the South Western tip of Lake Baikal.
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Baikal Lake, Siberia
Omul is a white fish local to Lake Baikal but in the same family as the more familiar salmon. Best raw or lightly smoked and salted (lakeside – with vodka – where possible).
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Smolenshina, Siberia
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Village of Smolenshina in Eastern Siberia between Irkutsk and Shelekhov. The frozen river is a small tributary of the Angara which flows from the eastward lying Lake Baikal.
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“No elections without choice.” (Cleverer in Russian because the word for ‘election’ and the word for ‘choice’ are essentially the same thing. “No choices without choice” could be another translation.)
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Lake Baikal, 100 km east of Irkutsk, Siberia. The largest and deepest fresh water lake in the world, it is over 1.5 km deep and contains more water than all the North American great lakes combined.
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Irkutsk, Siberia in Eastern Russia. At 5100 kilometers east of Moscow, it’s four days on the train. Irkutsk was founded in the mid 1600s as an outpost to collect fur taxes from the Buryats.
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Just south of Half Moon Bay, a rainbow caught in the sunrise after a night of thunderstorms on California State Route 1 in San Mateo County, California.
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Miss. Evelyn on the San Francisco pier. Save the lack of flowers, The Mamas and the Papas would be proud.
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The California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. Based roughly on the U.S. Capitol in DC, construction began in 1861. Mad shout out to Corinthian columns and Minerva.
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Evelyn doing her best Sarah Palin impression at mini-golf. Putting through a windmill is just like shooting wolves from a plane!
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Washington, D.C.
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The Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.
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Barack Obama’s Inaugeral Concert on the National Mall. About a million people were packed in between the Washington and Lincoln Memorials. Pete Seeger was fantastic.
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Digging the car out of the snow, then driving South from Kontiolahti for the 8 hour drive to Helsinki. The Sun had already set…at noon.
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The frozen lake outside the cabin in Kontiolahti, Finland; just south of the Arctic Circle.
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A set of photos and myself on the mountain in Koli, Finland (just north of Kontiolahti and just south of the Arctic Circle). Venus and the Moon are setting with the Sun; 3:00 p.m.
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In addition to being a good sport about my totally inadequate Arctic clothing, Stephan is also a master of the stone stove. We scaled a mountain in Koli to watch the stars rise at 2 p.m.
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Frozen Lake in Koli Finland. The ice was relatively thick, but still pretty scary. Standing on the ice though, it was totally clear.
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The first ‘morning’ of 2009. Sun rose at 10:30 a.m., set by 2 p.m. The ice on the lake creaked and groaned all night long. It was eerie.
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New Years 2009 at a cabin in Kontiolahti, Finland, just shy of the Arctic Circle. Vive la société. (Oskar, Sonja, Anders, Henri, Jenni, Tor, Sonja, Essi)
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Tor in the little town of Mikkeli, halfway up Finland on the drive to Koli. We finally found a spot in Finland where the locals don’t speak English; so they’re not completely perfect after all!
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Thomas doing the French – and Justice – justice; an evening out in Helsinki painting the town Commie Cuba Red.
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Arrival in Helsinki. And really, why not have a “fiesta” in Finland…. in December..?!
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Arlington, Virginia
The Capital Hill Marine Corps Running Club. Bipartisan Collection of Bad-asses.
(Who knew Our Nation’s Capital had such well-toned thighs?!)
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