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2016
Canada
Sackville, New Brunswick May
2015
USA
Burlington and Farm and Wilderness
Matvei’s Birthday
Canada
Eastern Townships Red Hill
2014
The Nightmare of Writers’ Retreats, NH
Sustainability Project in Gilsum, NH
2013
USA
Marlow and Gilsum: Kroka and Sustainability Project 14th February and summer
Canada and USA
Book tour on train and folding bike through North America September-November
2012
The Trois-Rivieres Odyssey continues
2011
USA
Train ride from Montreal to Albuquerque, NM April
Canada
The Trois-Rivieres Odyssey begins September
2010
USA
Train ride from Montreal to Portland, OR August
Canada
New Brunswick
2009
Canada
The Maritimes August-September
New Brunswick Part 1; Part 2; Part 3;
Prince Edward Island Part 4; Part 5;
Nova Scotia Part 6;
The Storm in Nova Scotia on Northumberland Strait: Part 7;
Cape Breton: Part 8;
Halifax: Part 9;
The Bay of Fundy and Digby Neck: Part 10;
Welcome Bikers: part 11;
USA
Memphis, TN August
Vermont August
Big Rapids and Flint, Michigan, February – March
Train from Eugene, Oregon to Chicago to Grand Rapids February
Eugene, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Oahu, Hawaii January-February
2008
California: Los Angeles, Monterey, San Fransisco December
train from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles to Salinas, CA December 10 – 12th
Big Rapids, MI 7th December
North Carolina: Duke University, Durham, Raleigh, the Ocean September
Trois Rivieres, QC
2007
USA
Glover, Vermont: Bread&Puppet Show part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 August
Johnson, Vermont July
Canada
Montreal
Laurentians
USA
Coatesville, PA April – May
Bryn Mawr, PA April
New York, NY April
Train & Bus between Philly, New York, and Montreal
CANADA
Montreal, QC March
2006
USA
Coatesville, PA November
Eastern & Southern EUROPE
RUSSIA
Hiking Konakovo – Redkino Septenber
Hiking trips in Tver region August-October
Babie, Russia part 1, part 2 July
Moscow Region July
POLAND – BELORUS’ July
Train ride (Czech Republic-Poland-Belorus’-Russia)
CZECH Republic July
Prague
SWIZERLAND June-July
Train ride (Switzerland-Austria-Slovakia-Czech Republic)
Geneva
ITALY June:
Train ride (Milano-Geneva)
Sestri
Milano
Venice
CROATIA June
Train ride (Zagreb-Ljubljana-Venice)
Zagreb
Plitvitsa
SERBIA June
Train ride (Belgrade-Zagreb)
Belgrad
HUNGARY June
Train ride (Budapest-Belgrade)
Budapest
UKRAINE June
Train ride (Lvov-Chop-Zahon’-Budapest)
CRIMEA May-June
Train ride (Simferopol-Lvov)
Simferopol
Alushta
Yalta
The Valley of Ghosts
Sudak
Koktebel
Bachchisarai
Cave Cities of Crimea: Inkerman & Chufut-kale
Balaklava
Khersones
Sebastopol
RUSSIA
Moscow Region April
Kovrov April
Moscow January-April
FRANCE
Paris April
Lyon-Paris April
NORTH AMERICA /Lala/
USA
Coatesville, PA March-April
CANADA
Montreal, QC January-March
2005
USA /Lala/ (xmass)
Coatesviile, PA
D.C.
RUSSIA
Kayaking on Tvertsa /Sasha/ (August)
Foros, Crimea /Sasha/ (July)
Sebastopol, Crimea /Sasha/ (July)
Berdyansk, Ukraine /Sasha/ (July-August)
Hiking around Kurovskoe, Moscow Region /Sasha/ (July)
Scandinavia: Finland and Norway /Lala/ (June-July)
Train Ride Spirovo-St.Petersburg-Helsinki /Lala/ (June)
Tver Region Kayaking (June) part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
Babje, Tver Region (June) part 1, part 2
Tver (June)
Ulianovsk part 1, part 2(June)
The Road to Ulianovsk (June)
Moscow Region/Lala/ (May)
Moscow Region Hiking /Sasha/ (April)
Moscow in spring
Celebration of the vampires (May)
Moscow winter
NORTH AMERICA
USA
Washington, DC-VA /Sasha/ (March)
Philadelphia, PA /Sasha/ (February-March)
Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Philadelphia, PA /Sasha/ (March)
Coatesville, PA /Sasha/ (February-March)
CANADA
Montreal, QC (January)
Laurentians, QC
2004
CANADA
Montreal, QC
Laurentians, QC
Hitchhiking Montreal – Toronto (July)
Hitchhiking to build an Earthship: Montreal – Ottawa – Killaloe – and back (June)
Laurentians, QC
2003
CANADA
Laurentians, QC (back and forth – till end of 2004)
Hiking from Port-Cartier to Gagnon, QC /Sasha/ (July)
Hitchhiking from Montreal to Quebec City to Port-Cartier, QC /Sasha/ (July)
RUSSIA
Moscow (January) /Sasha/
2002
RUSSIA
Kovrov /Sasha/ (December)
Moscow /Sasha/ (October-December)
CANADA
Crashing the University frontiers, QC /Lala/ (Summer)
Change of neighbourhoods in Montreal: to Petite Bourgogne, QC (Spring)
2001
Hitchhiking from Montreal to Farm in Lennoxville, QC /Sasha/ (summer)
Farm in Lennoxville, QC /Lala/ (summer)
Mont Laurier, QC (summer)
Northern Quebec (kayaks) (summer-autumn)
Outremont, Montreal, QC (spring)
Stoneham, QC (January)
2000
CANADA
Montreal, QC (December)
Southern Ontario (October-November)
Toronto, ON (October)
Ottawa, ON (October)
Quebec City and Stoneham, QC (October)
Northern Quebec (September)
Rue Querbes, Parc Extension, Montreal, QC (July-August)
Farm in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, QC (July)
Montreal, QC (June)
Tver-Sheremetievo-Paris-Montreal (June)
RUSSIA
Hitchhiking: Tver – Moscow – Vladimir – Suzdal – Ivanovo – Borisogleb – Rostov Velikij – Uglich – Kaljazin – Kashin – Tver (May-June)
Kayaking in Northern Tver Region – Torzhok (May)
1999
RUSSIA
Tver
Burning countryside, escape to Moscow & Dacha August
Tver July
Seleger July
Volgo lake June – July
Malino & Nikola Titeli June
LIOUBA
Torzhok, Tver Region March
Yaroslavl February
Tver February
Moscow February
Rostov Velikij January
Yaroslavl January
Arkhangelsk January
Vologda January
Intermittent trips to Moscow
1998
RUSSIA
Intermittant trips to Moscow, Novye Cheremushki August – December
Velikij Novgorod December
SWEDEN
Stockholm Sweden October
RUSSIA
Tver August
Moscow (Okt.Pole + Yasenevo) June-July
Boat from Stockholm to Tallin & train to St. Petersburg May
FRANCE
Paris – the robbers of Paris February
GERMANY
Train from Stockholm to Berlin February
Berlin
SWEDEN
Malmö February
1997
SWEDEN
Rinkeby, Stockholm July – December
Island in Stockholm (Ulrika’s wedding) July
NORWAY/Lala/
Oslo May
Bergen May
RUSSIA/Lala/
Moscow & Moscow Region May
SWEDEN
Rissne, Stockholm January – May
1996/Sasha/
1996/Lala/
SWEDEN
Uppsala
Stockholm (IMER) September – December
SPAIN September
Granada
Malaga
Away from all
SWITZERLAND
Lausanne August
RUSSIA June – July
St. Petersburg
Moscow
GERMANY
Taken off the train on the way back
Train from Munich back to Stockholm via Copenhagen May
Munich May
Hamburg May
The Road from Stockholm to Copenhagen to Hamburg May
SWEDEN January – June
Visit from Anja
The Islands
Yokmok
Stokholm
1995
FRANCE
Paris December
ESTONIA October
Tallin by boat
SWEDEN
Stockholm
MEXICO
Acapulco
Chiapas: Palenque, etc.
Mexico City
CANADA
Toronto
USA
New York, NY
Ardmore, PA
Aunt Zina in the US
JAPAN
Flight Tokyo – New York
Hitch-hiking from Tokyo to Hokkaido
The Awakening
The Great Depression
THAILAND February – March
Forgetting Koh Samui
Mountains and Opium fields
Chiang Mai
Bangkok
JAPAN
Tokyo
Yokhohama
Kamakura
Takakura, Fujisawa
AUSTRALIA
Sydney January
Melbourne December
1994
AUSTRALIA
Melbourne November-January
JAPAN August-December
Tokyo
Yokhohama
Kamakura
Takakura, Fujisawa
US
Watson Conference, R.I. August
Ardmore, PA August
ITALY
Pisa
Milano
Bologne
Florence
Train ride and fame on TV from Paris to Florence
Mixed Airports
BELGIUM
Brussells
Antwerp
FRANCE
Paris
GREAT BRITAIN
London
HOLLAND
The boat to England
Rotterdam
The Hague
The Lab
The Conference?
Friessland
Amsterdam
GERMANY
Wurzburg With Mathias and Genet
SWEDEN
Uppsala
The 7 house city in the south and the sea
Stockholm at last!
RUSSIA
The boat from St. Petersburg to Stockholm
St. Petersburg
Moscow
FRANCE
Montmartre, Paris
1993
FRANCE
Finding an aparte: Montmartre
Hunting for an apartment
XII eme, Paris
SWITZERLAND
Lausanne August
FRANCE
Marseille
Nimes
Aix-en-Provence
Avignon July – August
XII eme, Paris
USA
Flight from San Francisco to Paris end July
Cross Country – Harrisburg, PA, Northern Route to Olympia & Seattle, WA, Green
Tortoise from WA through CA and Oregon June
D.C. suburbs
Driver’s licence, PA May
BMC graduation May
Winter in Glenmede
1992
U.S.A.
Bryn Mawr, PA
NY
FRANCE
U.S.
Paris
Paris – Montmartre Summer
ITALY
Rome and Vatican
D.C.
CANADA
Toronto
BMC
1991
FRANCE
Paris Christmas
FRANCE
Bretagne
Paris
CANADA
Quebec City summer
US
Boston
Middlebury
New York
BMC May
NY January
1990
Manhattan, NY December
BMC
NY
CANADA
Toronto
US
Wretched story
Upstate New York
Elmira
NY
BMC
N.Y.
Bryn Mawr January – May
Cross-Country: CA, AZ, NM, LA, January
Santa Monica January
1989
USA
New Year in LA
Texas December
Meeting Diana, BMC, PA October
Fall break in NY
BMC orientation end August
CA: San Francisco, Berkley, L.A., back to Manhattan in class
NY summer
D.C.
1988
USA
D.C.
MA
Long Island, NY
BELGUIM
Bruges
Antwerp
FRANCE
Lille
Cannes
Toulouse
Corrèze
Le Havre
Nantes
Rouen
Normandy
Chartre
The Port
Paris
EGYPT
Sharm al Shaikh
Cairo
1987
EGYPT
Cairo (Aviastop)
SUDAN
ETHIOPIA August
SUDAN (February – December back and forth)
Nyala
Kassala
And other trips around Sudan
SUDAN (February – December back and forth)
U.K. January – February
London
Morcomb
Ocean
Derby
Oxfordshire and all that snobbish stuff
London
U.S. January
1986
SUDAN
U.S. December
Long Island, NY
Manhattan, the view from the Hilton and X-mass with(out) Americans
The TRAIN or how things could go named wrong
Air India flight from London to JFK, New York
U.K.
London
SUDAN
Meroe
Khartoum
KENYA
Voi
Mombasa
Nairobi
1985
SUDAN
EGYPT
Alexandria
Cairo
SUDAN
Layla’s Childhood and Adolescence
Show-jumping competitions in Egypt & Sudan (from age 13 years to 23)
Back to the U.S.S.R at the age of 12 years:
Moscow
Ukraine
Moldavia
Romania
Bulgaria
Greece
A train ride through western U.S.S.R.
The Desert Railway: Sudan and Egypt
From Sweden to Sudan
From Sudan to Sweden
The Savannah
From USSR to Africa
Between city and countryside
The journey of birth
Sasha:
Germany
Hamburg
Finland and impressions of USSR (St. Petersburg etc.)
Sweden
In India
Detstvo: From USSR to India
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