“…After talking about it for a while we conclude that flying is like cheating, you get to an airport, do your check-in, wait a bit, get into this flying piece of metal and you wake up (if you managed to sleep) in another country, maybe even another continent or the other side of the planet. So we decided to get to Europe by land.
In the map we saw this tiny little port city called Wakkanai in the very top of the north Japanese island of Hokkaido and a dotted line connecting it with “Sakhalin” a Russian island that i never heard before. That was enough to start hitchhiking north with that two names in mind…”
“… Traveling by train is quite interesting, maybe is the constant sound or the rocking movement but you get into this particular state of mind very contemplative and introspective, even creative i would say, and when you spend more than a week inside it you forget that you are finally doing one of the most legendary trips in the world, crossing the vast Russian lands from east to west, from Asia to Europe…”
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