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Day 22: Saint Petersburg
We finally arrive in St. Petersburg after what can only be considered a hot and horrible train ride. It makes us wish we did what the Chileans had done (which was take the bullet train between the cities, during the day). Oh well, at least this time our driver was present and waiting for us […]
Day 13: Lake Baikal – Rest Day!
We hadn’t planned to do anything today, as by now we were expecting to be feeling a bit tired. We were right! After greatly sleeping away the morning we went for a walk into town to explore the rest of the village and see a local art gallery. We walked up two of the 3-4 […]
Leg stretching and gear testing
A friend of our’s has chased winter for years – bouncing between the northern and southern hemispheres to live in a near permenant of sub-sero temperatures for the better portion of a decade. [She’s a snowboard instructor, so if you are thinking this last sentence is a statement of insanity, it is actually grounded in reason.] […]
In which I am glad to be in Canada…
So today was brutally cold here. We have just come off a nice warm spell in our fair neck of the woods, with temperatures hovering around -1ºC to +9ºC. Lots of ice (which sucked) but it was a warm break. This morning I checked my phone weather app and it told me it was 0ºC. […]
Rails Across the Curtain 