A Sakhalin Road Trip
ROAD TRIPS, RUSSIA — July 26, 2010 at 4:42 PMBy guest blogger Brian R. Williams
Photos Copyright © 2005 Brian Williams
SEEKING ADVENTURE AND income in the Spring of 2005, I took on a job as construction manager on the remote island of Sakhalin, Russia, situated less than fifty miles north of Japan. I never knew this place existed, but it was to be my home for an undetermined period of time.
My employer was based in the capital city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,...
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