Bottles waiting to be filled and sealed at the Kangso Mineral Water Factory: The location of this factory in North Korea is not random. Hundreds of feet beneath the factory are large aquifers of pure water that have been naturally carbonated by carbon dioxide (CO2) trapped deep underground. The carbon dioxide is freed from carbonate … Continue reading
Picking up right where we left off in Part 1… Outside of Red Square, one can either proceed through Norton Park (more on Norton Park below) or journey across the countryside to see some of the other highlights of Molossia. One such example is the Trans-Molossia Trail. This trail, maintained by the Molossian National Park … Continue reading
The gateway to the Republic of Molossia: As promised earlier, the scene report from Molossia is finally here… ***** It’s a sad fact that Americans don’t get much international travel experience when compared to Europeans or those from other wealthy nations. Perhaps this is because the United States is a large country and there is … Continue reading
No. 18, a Baldwin 2-8-2 locomotive of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad built in 1914, pulls into Gold Hill, Nevada on June 8, 2014: It is still possible to ride the Virginia & Truckee Railroad (V&T) between Carson City, NV and Virginia City, NV today. Continue reading
She stands 16 feet tall and is made up of 3,261 silver dollars weighing in at 210 pounds: The Silver Queen was created in 1957 as a tribute to the miners and the mining industry of Virginia City. Much of the silver in the 3,261 silver dollars came from local mines. The Silver Queen can … Continue reading
A sampling of some of the people we met on our trip to South Africa… I pulled some of these pictures from the archives, but many of these I am publishing for the first time: Continue reading
The title is not a spelling error… You can find out more about who Anonymus was here. Below is his statue on the grounds of Budapest’s Vajdahunyad Castle: Vajdahunyad Castle: One of the interesting sights on the grounds of Vajdahunyad Castle: The above pictures were taken in the summer of 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 