It’s easy nowadays or so says the hitchhiking guru, Anton Krotov, but you don’t know it until the end. And to the armchair traveler, Siberia seems a wild and windswept place. Not uninhabited but wild wild west for sure, and in that — not even counting geography, culture, history, languages — completely foreign.
My friends, Mac and Aaron, hatched up a plan to follow the merchandise from Vladivostock to Moscow traveling by green power alone — that’s right folks, the almighty dollar. This tale and these photos are the result. As Ken Kesey once said, “the intrepid traveler never fails”.
[...] Dropped Mac & Jenny off at the airport on Monday, they’ll be in Australia for a couple of weeks but we’ll see them in Iowa! In the meantime, I have his car, so if anyone wants to practice donuts or do some drug deals, let me know. BTW, Mac’s article, Road-Tripping the Trans-Siberian Highway, and Aaron’s excellent photos are now live on Nat’l Geographic Adventure (via: Coop). [...]