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“Throat singers, track suits, circus acts, Buddhist prophecies, and car shepherds”

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”.

One Response to ““Throat singers, track suits, circus acts, Buddhist prophecies, and car shepherds””


  1. Trans-Siberia Tripping & Posse Update
    on Jul 17th, 2008
    @ 7:42 pm

    [...] 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). [...]

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