x-team.ru опубликовало пару моих статеек на Русском.
x-team.ru has published a few articles of mine in Russian.

Бразилия - Бразилия! К далёким берегамИсколесив практически всю Южную-Америку вдоль и поперёк, мы оставили самое лакомое - мечту детства любого советского путешественника - Бразилию, на десерт. Хотя к тому моменту на далёкой Амазонке ( Read more... )

YouTube & Google Video are like all the rage nowadays, so we like decided to be like cool and hip, and like uploaded some clips. Here is one from our collection.

I'm sitting in NY. Yes! in NY. At my mother's PC and dreading the last few posts that I'm sort off supposed to write to document the end of our South American experience ( Read more... )

This is insane! Even for us... It is exactly what I expected, but nonetheless it's nuts. The cargo boat is the usual size around here, about 16m x 4m (50ft by 15ft), as big as a spacious living-room. However, it is set up for about 200 hammocks that hang literally on top of each other. It is a fabric maze of all colors of the rainbow, impossible ( Read more... )

The reason for the next four days was this quote "... on epic 4WD-journey to Parque Nacional dos Lencois Maranhenses you'll roll past sand dunes and splash through creeks, ducking palms as the untouched landscape unfolds around you." "The best part is getting there," Shurik was very excited about this. I went along. I would be lying if I said I was ( Read more... )

From one beach town to the next. From Pipa to Jericoacoara. I don't like it here. I finally understand what it means for a place to have the right vibe, and this place just doesn't have it. The beach is dirty and the sand buggies are expensive to rent. We finally did team up with two Italians, Paulo and Ricardo, and went riding to the remote ( Read more... )

If we were in Boston today, we probably would have had a sushi party like last year. We would have had a house full of friends toasting to us, and at night the whole happy slightly buzzed bunch would have accompanied us to the shores of Charles River to watch the fireworks.


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We flew here. It's not like we got sick of buses, I actually almost miss the crippling pain in my back and the smell of the portable lavatory, but it was simply cheaper to fly then to take the bus. The whole plane thing, though, actually threw us off. In a night we went back to being wide eyed tourists who fall for all those little tricks the local ( Read more... )

Rio is officially my all time favorite from the big cities we've been to so far. Buenos Aires comes close with its tango and almost New York atmosphere, but Rio de Janeiro is a metropolitan intertwined with hills of jungle, framed by the ocean. I have never seen anything like this. The first thing we did is go up to Corcovado to see Christ the ( Read more... )

So we are walking on the main street of this little town on an island called Ilha Grande. We are tired and sweaty, but we finally know where we going to sleep tonight and that the place has a hot shower, so you could say we are sort of happy. A man approaches us with fliers in hand. "No," I say smiling, "we have a place to stay, thank you." "Oh, no ( Read more... )