I haven’t really posted much about China. Yeah, I know. Between the Great Firewall, slooooowwww connection in Shanghai, and a lack of a computer, it’s been painful even to check email. There’s much to say, but I shant say it now. Because I know what you’re wondering: How was the eclipse? So I’ll postpone more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Moscow’
The shortest longest eclipse
Posted in China, tagged Al Drew, Al Roker, China, eclipse, eclipse-chaser, eclipse-chasing, Great Firewall, Jay Anderson, Mongolia, Moscow, Rick Brown, SEML, Shanghai, Star City, total solar eclipse on July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Moscow…..a haze
Posted in Russia, tagged Moscow, Russia, Star City on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[I just added links to this post, but then had the effing internet run out on me mid-post. so the whole effing things was lost. so now I'm reposting sans links. I'm annoyed.] ——- I’m sitting in a student cafeteria in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Tartarstan Republic and the so-called Istanbul of Russia. [...]
Staraya Russa
Posted in Planning, Russia, tagged Dostoevsky, Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Staraya Russa on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ed note: I wrote this a day ago, in SR. I’m actually in Moscow now – just arrived by overnight train. I couldn’t post this from SR because the internet cafe there was disgusting and I didn’t want to spend any time there. and no wifi. anyway…here it is. more about Moscow when I’ve got [...]


