Travel blog by a global nomad
Well, the word came out yesterday that a grizzly bear with her cub was sighted near the camp. As promised, the bears are returning! Life should start to get easier for them soon as well – the snow is vanishing in vast quantities each day, revealing the dead (dormant?) brown grass and nobbly branches of [...]
The other day I mentioned I was encountering enormous animosity from Russians, which was a first to me. At this particular mine site, they appeared to resent ex-pats, regarded as an intrusion in the way they run things and I was puzzled by this. And now I know I was clouded by western thinking…
Yesterday I [...]
So the big wait continues. As I wait for the snow to melt – which admitedly, it is doing at a pretty fast rate. But not fast enough for me to get out there and tootle around doing what I am being paid to do – look at rocks…
Of course, coming in to this area [...]
Unlike my previous experience in Russia, this one is being overshadowed by extensive animosity to ex-pats! I am now working in at an established mine which has cycled through ex-pats in senior positions in the beginning to hardly any to ramping back up again. Why? Because unfortunately, when left to their own devices, the Russians [...]
I inch ahead… The ground beneath my feet is covered in a thin layer of white snow, but little nobs of brown ice poke up. I step cautiously… I watch my feet… And WHOMPH! Suddenly I am sitting not standing and there is a sharp pain in my knee. I slipped on the ice
Meanwhile, the [...]
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