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Of Ukrainian Chicks, Motorcycles and Roentgens

PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:32 am
by Jimbo
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
How about a nice relaxing ride through the Chernobyl "dead zone"?

Scroll to the very bottom and the good stuff is under "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2"...

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:45 am
by savethewave
I love this site. The best is her warning, "If you go off the road here, the radiation will kill you in a few hours."

PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:11 am
by 2Nu
Fascinating stuff.
Hafta give her credit for journeying through such a bleak (and toxic) area. That whole debacle still chills me to the bone. The notion that the hastily built concrete sarcophagus will have to shield that crippled reactor for the next

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:28 pm
by Bitter Almonds
You do know that some of it is fiction and that she's a writer. You should look it up on a place like Snopes (or just do a google search for "Chernobyl" "hoax" "elena"). It's still a very interesting story and some of the pics are real.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:52 pm
by Bitter Almonds
Well, it's not like travelling through Chernobyl would need much wax poetic anyway. It kicks ass no matter what.