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August 17, 2023

And finally – adventurous unusualnesses, pt. 7: going cosmic (zero-gravity).

First – a review of the series:

Part 1: Ocean-going adventures

Part 2: South Pole & North Pole adventures

Part 3: Land-based (road and rail) adventures

Part 4: Chartered… train adventure

Part 5: Beijing Bird-Nest Stadium adventure

Part 6: Volcanic, cockpit & air-pocket adventures

And finally, closing the series – an aerial weightlessness adventure!…

Ten 25-second bursts of complete weightlessness – zero-gravity: just like what astronauts endure when in a space ship or station in outer space! And we experienced it in this here special Roscosmos astronaut-training airplane ->

Oh my gravity-less! A simply cosmic experience!

And I’ve been lucky enough to try this twice – in 2014 and 2018. And I want another go!…

And I’ve gotten myself a ticket for a suborbital flight on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – so, fingers crossed, one day my adventures will take on cosmic proportions!…

However, I may never make the flight; but if someone wants my ticket (No. 250) for a fair price – welcome!…

You might expect I’d have been on the International Space Station by now, but, alas – no. I did prepare – including quitting smoking! – but I didn’t pass the physical (. Never mind: there’s plenty to see and do on Earth yet! I still dream of one day traveling through space though…

And that is it folks. Awesome-adventure travel-experience series (sea > land > roads/rail > stadiums > volcanoes > cosmos (almost) – done!

Hope you enjoyed.

Back soon – literally with new adventures: of the safari kind in Africa!…

November 15, 2024

Space museum extraordinaire – with an 18+ twist at the end.

It’s been ages since the last time I wrote about outer space – too long; for space is cool far out!… Exploration of extraterrestrial space in any form, manned or not – plus cosmonautics, astrophysics and telescopes at the top of volcanoes, it’s all extremely important for the whole of mankind – and fantastically interesting for the […]

November 12, 2024

Kamchatka’s old Route 264: the views therefrom – top-drawer.

Forty kilometers to the south of Kronotsky there are two “cult” Kamchatkan volcanisms: (i) the Uzon volcanic caldera… -> …and the famous Valley of Geysers -> This year, instead of choppering in, looking about for a bit, then choppering off again, we decided to do a multi-day trek along the old Soviet Route No. 264… […]

November 11, 2024

The most graceful volcano of Kamchatka.

Next up, one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world, and probably the most refined of the peninsula – Kronotsky ->

November 7, 2024

Winter’s coming; best get the beers in then.

Hi folks! I’m back home in Moscow – where it seems the fall has been cancelled! I flew out in summer – and flew back in winter! -> The contrast was remarkable – from the tropics to this. And winter’s still a month away! All this talk of global warming? It doesn’t seem to apply […]

November 6, 2024

Kamchatka-2024 – pt. 5: Kizimen… now and then.

It was farewell to what is possibly the world’s remotest hotel complex, and off we choppered south to our next Kamchatkan volcanic wonder – Kizimen (pronounced KizEEmen). And here she is – the view from the south: And from the north -> What differentiates this particular volcano of Kamchatka from others are the two lakes […]

November 2, 2024

Another country (Indonesia) – another volcano (Ijen).

Just like in Kamchatka, in Indonesia (where last week we had our super-successful Security Analyst Summit), there are a great many really cool hot volcanoes! I should know, since I’ve checked some of them out a few times – in 2018 around New Year, and last year after a press event (when we scaled Mount […]