Siberia, Russia Part 6 – When Stairs Attack in the Khabarovsk Train Station

In that continuing series, we cover my move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia almost on one a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story going to the train station in Khabarovsk to catch the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

Day 4!

If you’ve been reading that series on NomadJournalTrips.com, you know my first-hand travel estimate was 2 ½ days from San Diego to Chita,

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Russia. Well, day 4 has arrived and I am reliable getting on the train. This execrable time estimate is evidence of a down-and-out math education. I blame the American education system!

I nevermore could figure expired these math hypotheticals, “If a train is going sinister at “x” speed and a cyclist is going north at “x” speed, when will they just?” When are they going to just? More like, “What the heck is cyclist going to look like WHEN they just?” What about his family, not to mention the nightmares suffered a shot conductor. I mingy, really, who hanging loose math under such circumstances?

Stairs…Evil, Evil Stairs

At the Intourist hotel, we arranged for train tickets to Chita. By we, I mingy my friend Grae did everything. For $27, “we” had arranged a discreet berth added to was good. With a good nights sleep, we headed down from the room and expired into the…pouring rain. A civic was kind decent to give us a ride to the train station added to seemed good. After a bit of pointing, sovereign anterior expressions and on and on, we discovered our train was running about an hour dilatory. We hunkered down and did a bit of people watching.

As we sat, I pondered my luggage. I had a extravagant hiking backpack and something I called “the lump.” The lump was an extremely extravagant duffle bag with Lilliputian wheels on one-end and pliant bars running down the procumbent side/bottom. In theory, you could roll it or drag it anywhere. Mine was clouded, stormy and weighed about 70 pounds. Before you snicker, keep in the mind I was going to Siberia for a year. What would you take? Still, I had an agitated feeling, but couldn’t really figure expired why.

Our hour was up and it was time to champion to the track platform. Like manifold European train stations, one had to actually walk down stairs, through a tunnel and suddenly back up stairs to get to your platform. This is not the way it works in San Diego. It likewise doesn’t rain in San Diego. Rain, 70 pound bag in parts, pliant bars, stairs…I think you get the picture.

The stairs were packed as I shuffled forth pulling the lump behind me. You on the make illustrious. I made the first flight without maiming anyone or being slapped. Just as I stepped down the runner-up flight, “thou was nudgeth from behind.”

Time slowed.

The lump hit me in the in the rear the knees. I fell back onto the lump. In a transformation beyond my old understanding of quantum physics, the lump became a high geared bobsled. Down I went.

Still in dilatory motion, I couldn’t help but notice the agility of the Russians in the stairwell. Some jumped up an beautifying shelf running down the stairs. Overweight individuals sucked it up and suddenly became haggard. Miraculously, not one soul was hit on my way to the bottom. My landing was ordinary, which is to say expert wasn’t a loud just on the wall in substance of the stairs.

I jumped up and turned to see if anyone was injured. There was gross silence. Faces reliable stared back at me. Apparently, the only thing injured was my ego and skin, which was turning a faint shade of red. Well, I like to make an impression! I vehemently prayed that none of them were going to Chita.

Everyone started moving encore and not a word was said. Alas, the lump was not extremely accommodating when it came to climbing up the stairs on the further end of the tunnel.

Next – The Trans-Siberian Railway…How Many Days To Chita?!

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