Category: PHOTOSTORIES
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Photo Map of US Historic Route 66
Here is the map of US Historic Route 66, from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, with photos on it, placed exactly where they were taken. (more…)
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Truck Ride with Bike
It was a Big Truck Ride, a Road Trip from Albuquerque to Flagstaff. That how it happened. (more…)
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Lost and found in Bent Tree Inn community
Historical Route 66 is tricky. This time the dead end of it brought me to the Bent Tree Inn old hotel converted into a community.
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Flood in Old Bus Stop
It started raining and did not stop for a whole week. All news were about flood in Missouri, I was listening ithem from the Old Bus Stop Coffee Shop and Gallery in … Missouri.
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Brought with the wind
I was facing stormy wind and exhausted from cycling against it in the heat in the middle of nowhere. The first building was a small winery and it was open. For Karen’s birthday Party. So I really became one brought with the wind.
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Dead End of Route 66
Once I lost the way and find myself at the the dead end of Route 66 far from anything but close to industrial workshops, the have rain started.
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The largest Wagon in the world
Staying in the same junction, I didn’t notice the largest Wagon in the world and missed it. The next day I was back, being curious how it could happen.
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Old Log Cabin. Pontiac
I was in a big risk of flying back to Chicago for free with stormy wind when someone take me with my bike to Pontiac straight to the Old Log Cabin Restaurant.
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Setting a Speed Record on Route 66
Looks like I’m setting a speed record on Route 66. My ride will be the ever slowest. There are so many attractions along the way so I stop everywhere.
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Hitting Route 66
I’m hitting Route 66, named American Main Street or American Mother Road. How else they call it, it’s a road which my parents should be hitting before I was born, if they … weren’t Russians (so I am)
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Hitchhiking Tennessee
I should being pedalling now from Chicago to Santa Monica by Bicycle Route 66 but instead was hitchhiking from Nashville to Mountain City, Tennessee.
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Joining Cyclists’ Hospitality Network
On the 1st of April 2015 I flew to Chicago for cycling Bicycle Route 66 to the West and TransAmerican Trail to the East and joined cyclists’ hospitality network. (more…)
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Drumming Village
Three of us – Iva – my friend from volunteering, bear Bear – my trophy from tennis tournament, and me, took trip to Oslo. (more…)
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Hornsjo, a Small Alpine Village
They met me at the Lillehammer railway station at night and drove to the place – a small village in the mountains behind the boom. A few summer barns and one hotel – that’s Hornsjo, a small alpine village above Lillehammer in Norway.
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Arctic Rally
There was the big event the week I was back to Rovaniemi – the Arctic Rally. I was a automotive journalist a while ago in Moscow and can’t just pass their media centre in the Pohjanhovi hotel without saying “hello”.
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Nordkapp Magic Hour
I was dreaming about this since my childhood, how I would stay at the very end of the land, facing the North Pole. For some reason I don’t want to stay in the North Pole itself, and minus 50 is not the reason.
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Gym & Spade
8 times right hand is leading, 8 times left, 8 times push, 8 times pull… Was I the first ever person using spade and snow for exercising instead of gym?
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Santa Claus and Aurora Borealis
The Arctic Circle crosses Finland in the city of Rovaniemi. More particularly – in Santa Claus Village. Snowdrifts and Christmas decoration guaranteed. As well as a whole day darkness. (more…)
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How the Shared Link Switches Over Your Plans
… Solution came as a shared link in Facebook about global volunteering, when you do something somewhere in return of accommodation and food.
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Hikers Prison
Diner for hikers in the Church in Duncannon, lunch in McDonald’s Walnutport out of the trail, trying to hitchhike back but stopped by a policeman because it was prohibited in Pennsylvania.
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Fairy Harpers Ferry.
Pretty Harpers Ferry, the trip to Washington with Laurie, back to the woods, and very special trail magic from Laurie and Co
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Shenandoah Bears
Shenandoah National Park. Stunning views, meeting with bears, storm at night, a ride from German tourists to the motel, then back to the trail.
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Meteorite Shower
Cool hostel with organic food (what was its name?), meteorite shower at Four Pines hostel, chicken buffet, famous McAfee Knob, sealing tent, laundering at Troutville Fire Station.
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Damascus Trail Days
Woohoo, Damascus Trail Days! It was something like … I have nothing to compare with. Hiking Woodstock? Hiking Burning Man? Time will tell.
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Appalachian Folk School
Disappointed with my new backpack, exhausted after a night in a shelter – no compromising, never again! – ended up in Appalachian Folk School without any ability to walk a single mile.
Moscow
TV Short Movies Production, Journalism, Creative Writing. Once known as Elena Novikova, or Lena Mescherskaya, she made her mark as a journalist in a top Russian newspaper in the mid-2000s. With degrees in both technical and philological fields, she wrote on a variety of topics, earning praise for her literary flair, emotional depth, and unique blend of irony and grotesque allegory. Her column, The Track, a famous paper column, was especially notable, offering glimpses into her extraordinary life through its double meanings.
Now from the first face:
The following chain of events was never planned but happened because of the GEO-BS ripple effect.
South Africa
Because of my early age inspiration from the The Gods Must Be Crazy movie, in 2008, I flew to South Africa to run the Kalahari Desert Race and learned to run chasing other racers. This escapade led to a contract with the University of South Africa, where I trained with a top coach and won a Silver medal at the World Masters Athletics Championship in the USA in 2011. Dummit! If I had known, I would have stayed with my coach’s plan, and might have taken a Gold. But victories in the Alliance de France and British Consulate International Photo Contests, followed by a solo photo exhibition, Iron Africa, didn’t leave space for these thoughts. On a road trip around Cape Town, my camera with mindblowing footage of abandoned ships was stolen, together with everything else in my car, and I left for the longest hiking trail for a walk about.
Four Years On Foot. Wherever Eyes Lead
Because of this running chapter, I checked my limits and went unlimited. I thru-hiked the 2081-mile Appalachian Trail, cycled Historic Route 66 from Chicago to LA, pedaled from the Canadian border to Key West, biked from London to Orkney Island, traveled by boat and through the jungle on the Amazon River, climbed Machu Picchu, and drove from the Atacama Desert to Salar de Uyuni and Lake Titicaca.
Midcost Maine Art.
Because my car was towed away by mistake at the very beginning of my 2018 road trip, I changed my mind, stayed in Midcoast Maine for two years, collaborated with local artists on my art installation White PT Cruzer, which was frozen during the COVID lockdown.
Two Years of Skiing Lake Tahoe.
Because of the lockdown, I restored my road trip plan. At the gas station, on my way out of Rockport, I saw the car with an Aspen sticker and decided to go there. Until the track Chevy Tahoe arrived. And another one right after. A decision was made – I headed to Palisades Tahoe, passed PSIA exams, and for the next two seasons became a ski instructor with swim instructing in between.
Silicon Valley.
Horrible accident, deadly for my car and lacky for me, was a trigger for me to move to Silicon Valley to finally apply my engineering skills. Or media. With the W3 arrived, it can be both at once. Oh, and I should fix a mess on my account here, because my books, my bestselling hard copies, were published in the country whose language is not supported even for writing a bio here. Not even speaking about my changed name.
My books were uploaded to Amazon by the publishing house under their account. Who cares that it was one of the biggest in Russia? I must start over in English.