On the Road

January 13, 2009. My second day on the road from Moscow to Irkutsk, and today I’ll be hitchhiking to the Ural mountains. Around 7:30 AM I was woken up by some strange screams in the cabin of the van. It took me several minutes to …

Located in southern Siberia, Lake Baikal is often referred to as the unofficial pilgrimage destination among Russia’s hitchhikers’ community. Ever since I started hitchhiking and traveling around Russia, I would often meet fellow wanderlust souls who either hitchhiked to Lake Baikal or had the trip …