Siberia by Train on Microsoft’s Dime
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.01.03 | 12:47 AM ET
Bill Gifford is on the road the week chronicling his trans-Siberian journey in the latest installment of Slate’s Well Traveled. Gifford’s reports have been some of the best since the multimedia feature debuted. Here’s a nice scene from a train stop in Barabinsk: “As the train pulls in, a crowd of vendors swarms each doorway, wielding buckets of berries, plates with a few stale rolls, and dozens upon dozens of dried fish. They come in all sizes and shapes, from strings full of stubby things, barely big enough for bait, to an impressive 2-foot specimen turned yellow from the smoke. The fish are split open and desiccated, twisted into postures of agony, rather like their gold-toothed, hard-bitten vendors.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
