This is by far the strangest blog post of my life. It’s about pee. But I mean everyone does it so it’s fine. Yea, yea, yea I know good luck explaining this one to my future employer. Anyways, while on the Trans Siberian from Moscow to Beijing my friends Madeline and Jason Rife and Garrett Armstrong noticed that I peed a lot. So instead of boring you with my information overload blog about everything I did, ate, slept on and saw I just decided to sum up the trip with the places that I peed. And just for the record on some of the days I peed multiple times at the same place (I’m staying hydrated Grammy don’t worry!) I think it is safe to say that I left my mark…
August 3rd- Moscow
- Train from Konotop to Moscow
- Comrade Hostel in Moscow
- Tretyakov Art Gallery
- Cinabon restaurant on Arabt Street– across from the Wall of Peace!
- Victory Park (WWII memorial) “port a john”
- Fallen Monument Park in an old bus turned into a bathroom
August 4th- Moscow
- Red Square– “port a potty”
- Alexandrovsky Gardens in the Kremlin
Presidential Regiment’s Cavalry
- Diamond Fund in the Kremlin
- Ivan the Terrible Dungeon Bar near the Red Square
- The CubaHostel
- Coffee House in China Town, Moscow
- Train from Moscow to St. Petersburg
August 5th- St. Petersburg
- Apple Hostel
- St. Isaacs Cathedral
- Hermitage
Vincent Van Gogh: Memory Of The Garden At Etten
- Vodka Museum
August 6th- St. Petersburg
- Peterhof Palace
- Subway Restaurant on Nevsky Prospect
- Train from St. Petersburg to Moscow
August 7th- Moscow
- Starbucks on Arbat Street
- Movie Theater at Arabatskay Metro
- Train from St. Petersburg to Ekaterinburg
August 8th- Ekaterinburg
- Train from St. Petersburg to Ekaterinburg
- Meeting Point Hostel
- Yellow Submarine Restaurant
Jason and Madeline enjoying an amazing dinner
August 9th- Ekaterinburg
- Church of All Saints where the Romanov family was executed
- Uralski Pelmini Restaurant with our amazing tour guides of the city: Dima, Olga and Tanya! Thank you again!
Olga, Tanya, Garrett, Dima and the Rifes in Ekaterinburg
- IKEA Mall after seeing the Europe-Asia Continental Divide
August 10/11th- Train
- 55 hour train from Ekaterinburg to Irkutsk
August 12th- Irkutsk
- Trans-Sib Hostel
- Lenin St. Cafe
A note we left on the bulletin board at the cafe
- Lakeside Guesthouse on Lake Baikal
An old boat I found to climb on
August 13th- Listvyanka
- Lake Baikal
One of the food booths at the local baazar
- Mountain near lake
- Port a potties near cafe
- Administration building of Listvyanka
- Irkutsk train station
August 14th- Train
- Train from Irkutsk to Ulaan Baator, Mongolia
Our train car waiting to be attached to another train that would eventually take us to Ulaan Baatar
- Mongolian check point
August 15th- Ulaan Baatar
- Golden Gobi Hostel
- Gandaan Khiid Monastery
- The National History Museum
Standing next to a yurt
- Winter Palace of Bogd Khan
- Budha Park
August 16th- Train
- Train from Ulaan Baatar to Beijing
Arriving in Beijing. Trans Siberian complete!
August 17th- Beijing
- Sunrise Hostel
- Restaurant near Silk Market
What’s for dinner? Spicy chicken, eggplant, lamb and one of Jason’s pig ears!
August 18th- Beijing
- Famous restaurant where Jackie Chan once ate
With pipe broken, you can take piss only please!
- The Great Wall
- McDonalds near the Donghuamen Night Market
August 19th- Beijing to Konotop
- Beijing Airport
- Flight from Beijing to Kiev
- Kiev Airport
- Kiev Train Station
- Train from Kiev to Konotop
