A motorcycle tour through Chernobyl

[cgallery]

Pretty amazing photos.

http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl/chapter1.html

[TB Roye]

I have been a follower of her site for 5 years. Pretty amazing and interesting view of the old Soviet Union. He stories of hunting WWII artifacts is interesting also. Her political view of Russia today are interesting.

Tom

[bmyers]

...and THAT folks is what makes the internet great, even today.. A real story from a real person about something that REALLY happened. No bias, no corporate spin, no political agenda.

Thanks for passing that along.

Bill

[crokett]

That is a great site. Thanks for the link.

[gad5264]

Thanks for posting this. It is very interesting to see how it has effected the area around the plant.

[RickD1]

Where can I see the rest of her site?

[scorrpio]

Chernobyl is child's play compared to things that happened deeper in Russia - deep enough to be covered up.

http://www.american.edu/ted/ural.htm

I actually been to Chelyabinsk last summer. The city itself is pretty far from the polluted sites. Or so they say.

It is an eerie experience. Closer to the center of town, it's new businesses, clubs, restaurants, expensive cars. But if you get a couple miles away from town or even go to 'non-rich' areas inside town, the sights are almost exact duplicates of those chernobyl pictures - except there are people about. Out in the countryside are villages and farms - some semi-abandoned, some completely - looking as derelict as those on pictures. And they are still pretty far from the radiation of Mayak. The desolation here was a social process - people running mostly not from radiation but rather from absolute dead end of living there. Zero perspective, zero potential. We made a trip to some natural caves, about 4 hours drive from the city, and passed through a small town called Kropachevo. It looks strikingly familiar (for the outdoor part) to the ghost town, except you can see people here and there. Our Jeep might have been a firebreathing dragon by the looks it got from the locals.