The Church on the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia. © 2006 Melissa Barton
I recently received a question from someone who read my Transitions Abroad article on Immersion in Russia. The reader wanted to know how to learn the basics of Russian without access to a class.
Before I transferred to Colorado College and started taking [...]
I missed a few days and I still need to get some of the photos off my phone (from the days when I didn’t take a real camera with me), but I think Project 30 was a success for me.
I’ve seen three major approaches to projects like this:
Focus on your favorite type of photography and [...]
For the February edition of Bookslut, I reviewed Chuck Thompson’s Smile When You’re Lying, a book which sets out to expose the seamy underside of travel and travel writing. My review was fairly positive, but I agree with Rolf Potts that Thompson doesn’t quite accomplish his stated goal.
All the same, there are a number [...]
I wrote this month’s University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Object of the Month, Fossil Ginkgo from Siberia. Every month the Museum website highlights a specimen or artifact from its collection of over 4 million items.
I really enjoyed writing this up–the Kudia River fossils are beautiful and strikingly different from the cold-tolerant plants [...]
As it turns out, I should have read the editorial in the January/February issue of Transitions Abroad before wondering whether the print magazine is going out of print. Transitions Abroad holds a special place in my heart as my first sale in 2005, a short Participant Report about studying in Russia. It’s also [...]
Found at On the Road.
If you could take a dream trip in 2008, where would it be to and why?
My long-term dream trip is to take the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia and then the Trans-Mongolian to Ulan Bator. I loved my time in Russia and would very much like to see more of the [...]