| Wednesday, April 7, 2004 |
22:30 - Minor radiation leak. Roll up windows
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Now this is fascinating beyond all reason.
It's a Russian lady on a Kawasaki ZX-11 (so it has a certain relevance for me), which she chose specifically for its power, comfort, and straight-line flat-out speed.
Because she likes to do the Dead Zone ride. Through the region surrounding Chernobyl. Camera in one hand, Geiger counter in the other-- and if it starts clicking, she cranks on the throttle.
She also stops for lots of truly excellent photos whenever the microroentgens reading is low enough. She accurately characterizes Chernobyl (and Pripyat, the Ghost Town itself) as the modern-day equivalent of Pompeii-- it's a near-perfect snapshot of what the Soviet Union looked like in 1986, untouched by change since then.
Except by the presence of a woman from the Matrix on a 140-hp Japanese supersportbike tearing down the main street of town, instead of dour and doughy men on 20-hp Workers' Chariots on May Day.
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Brian Tiemann
