Siberia, Russia, Part 7 - The Trans-Siberian Railway
After deciding to move to Siberia for a year to teach at the
Chita State Technical University, I embarked on a travel odyssey
unlike any other. In this entry, we pick up the trip leaving the
train station in Khabarovsk.
A Train To Nowhere?
In deciding to travel to Chita, Siberia, I had originally
estimated a travel time of three days. Okay, maybe three at the
outside figuring time changes and such.
As day 4 of the trip headed into the afternoon, I was finally on
the train that would take me to Chita and figured I would be
there in a day or so. I would finally get to see the beautiful
and extreme landscape of Russia. To make things even better, I
would get to brag to my friends about riding on the famous
Trans-Siberian railway. This was going to be great. As is often
the case with anticipated events, reality threw an ugly wrench
in the proceedings.
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