![]() ![]() The country’s swampiness did not manifest itself in great expanses of water with reeds and trees in it, like the Florida Everglades. ![]() When he was satisfied with his find, he would pronounce it a “ khoroshoe mesto”-a good place. He wanted ground that was dry, not too low, not too many trash heaps, near water if possible, away from the road but not too difficult to get to. Sergei sometimes spent an hour or more in the evenings looking-stopping, getting out, walking around, then trying somewhere else. In a country without fences or “No Trespassing” signs, we had an abundance of places to camp, but each one required a certain amount of searching nonetheless. It was the summer of 2001, and we were driving across Siberia in a converted Renault step van that had formerly delivered eggs and sour cream and sometimes didn’t start. Petersburg, Sergei Lunev, Volodya Chumak, and I were well into the swampy flatlands of western Siberia.
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