Windows to Russia

Today while sipping that morning cup of coffee and enjoying the sunshine through our windows, I had lots of little thinking’s on my mind. (You know the thoughts that hang around and seem to keep popping up every few minutes.) Nothing earth shattering just persistent thoughts… Sveta and I went to a hospital yesterday and […]

Voluntary narcotic testing takes off in Russia

Dear Kyle and Svet, I have read your article about Russian expedition to the North Pole that is taking place at the moment, and saw you mention that you were looking for the diary page of the expedition. My name is Ilya Kovalev, I am the Canadian coordinator of the MLAE-2011 expedition which is currently […]

Driving on Propane (LPG) is great! It is hard to explain but until you drive on propane you will not totally understand. The best that I can say is that, driving on propane is smoother and cleaner. The oil virtually never gets dirty. It stays clean and almost the same color as it comes out […]

I was sipping that morning cup of coffee and realized that humans have just put a real hurt on things in this last few years or so (OK, so maybe the last thousand years or so!). What, between the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Those two escapades alone have evenhandedly […]

The rules for getting a Russian visa of any kind need to be corrected to the better not the worse like what seems to be common here in Russia… The Russian government should review its strict visa policies and take more efforts to make traveling in Russia easier in order to attract more tourists, the […]

Where is the ‘reset’?

Sveta found the OutdoorLife article for me and I read it this morning while sipping my coffee. Outdoor life was my last and best subscription that I ever had on a magazine (It ended two months before I came to Russia!). I love the articles and since I was an avid hunter and fisherman. The […]

When Sveta and I go on vacation we like to take lots of pictures of what we see. This little video to the right is a group of clowns that Sveta and I found performing on the streets of Odessa. It was Victory day in Russia and Ukraine or also called May Holidays. It is […]