Smoked Omul, Babushkas, and Lake Baikal
“Should we try it?” my wife and I said to each other, apprehension on our faces. All around us stood old babushkas, heads covered in checkered red scarves, the deep …
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How I Stopped Being a Wuss: Surviving the Whirlpool Jet Boat at Niagara Falls
Hurtling towards the rapids ahead of us, their peaks and valleys rising and falling like a majestic mountain range, my heart started to beat faster. Suddenly, our boat started to …
Getting Utterly Lost in Yangshuo, China’s Yulong River Valley
There is an odd mix of desperation and uneasiness that sets in when you’re lost in a foreign country. Doubly so when you’re lost in a country like China. It …