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https://social.trom.tf/display/d...Photo album: Russia, 2025
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I visited my family in Russia after over 5 years of not seeing them. Babushkas are getting older, but still walking and feeding cats, ducks and pigeons 😊 I wrote about their funny habits in chapter 3 of my book bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/
Feels so long ago now 🥲
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We parked and spent the night at a beautiful viewpoint in Alarcon- https://videos.trom.tf/w/8cXUeTG4...
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...We parked and spent the night at a beautiful viewpoint in Alarcon- videos.trom.tf/w/8cXUeTG4Pdmg2…
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Here we stayed in a very nice free motorhome parking area in a mountain village called Cirat. Cirat ...
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...Here we stayed in a very nice free motorhome parking area in a mountain village called Cirat. Cirat has hiking trails, waterfalls and many beautiful lookouts (and also some microscopic creatures that we could observe through our microscope 😁)
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21.3.2025 22:59Here we stayed in a very nice free motorhome parking area in a mountain village called Cirat. Cirat ...https://social.trom.tf/display/d...
A video about our first few days on the road in our motorhome: https://videos.trom.tf/w/5XT3pQdsFVQm...
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...A video about our first few days on the road in our motorhome: videos.trom.tf/w/5XT3pQdsFVQmR…
Here we went from Estartit, Spain, to Delta de l'Ebre. Unfortunately we lost a bunch of footage and didn't have the best experience in the big delta, but this was only the start of our journey :)
15.3.2025 22:56A video about our first few days on the road in our motorhome: https://videos.trom.tf/w/5XT3pQdsFVQm...https://social.trom.tf/display/d...
Our new TROM-home :)
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...Finally! This is our new home....the TROMhome :) - a 5.5 meters long motorhome - videos.trom.tf/w/m9ToKW2vwNDNd…
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Just a little video announcement about my book 😁
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...Just a little video announcement about my book 😁
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11.4.2024 23:23Just a little video announcement about my book 😁https://social.trom.tf/display/d...
My Book Release!
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...Hey guys! Just want to tell you that my book has FINALLY been published!
“Big World Small Sasha” is a true story detailing my years of traveling continuously on a shoestring budget—from Hawaii to Siberia, from New Zealand to Nicaragua, and many places in between—couchsurfing, hitchhiking, and budgeting every way possible. The book also describes my reckless childhood years, my growth as a human being, and my growing awareness of our global world and global problems.
It is primarily a memoir, but it is also full of facts about our world, and criticism of our society.
It is hard for me to describe how much work I put into this book, I can only say that it is 470 pages long, it has been my main project for the past five years, and it took nearly all my strength and energy to write, edit, format, design, and publish this book.
It is also a deeply personal story, and telling it broke me down several times, put me on an emotional roller coaster, and eventually burned me out entirely. This is why it took me so long to release it, and why I haven't written any blogs in a while.
Now, however, I am ready to let it go—and I am very happy to share it.
There is a PDF that you can download for free, or read directly on my website, and there are also some options to buy a paperback copy.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my seemingly-never-ending writing endeavor. And a big special thanks to @Tio and @Roma . I don’t think I could have done it without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊
I appreciate you all very much!
4.4.2024 18:59My Book Release!https://social.trom.tf/display/d...
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No surprise that Alexei Navalny died....unfortunately the situation in this world is not like a movie, where the bad guys are defeated. It seems to me like we've built a society that encourages villains and give little chances to anyone who wants to do anything in a more just way in this society.Navalny had a huge following and was able to pierce with his campaign through the thick and foggy blanket of propaganda that the Russian government is so good and persistent at. And Navalny may not have been a saint or may not have changed much in Russia, who knows considering the level of corruption that infected all governments around the world, but for sure he was attacked, silenced, and eventually killed (directly or indirectly through a lot of abuse).
Many journalists have been imprisoned or even killed, and now we can see these publicly and so clearly. It is naive to think that pretty much anyone who challenges Putin drops dead or in prison and this has nothing to do with Putin. But probably these wannabe dictators do not even mind to cover up anything anymore.
We are noticing the modern public beheading of those who challenge the status quo. But these modern dictators do not have yet the courage to admit that they did it. They only make it very obvious that they did.
Russia seems to have become an authoritarian regime, the old school one. And this is increasingly concerning. Silencing the protesters, killing the political opponents, and infecting the media with terrible propaganda.
"make no mistake" (to quote the chief of USA), the other tribes are flavors of the same medicine. USA, EU, and the rest, are abusive in their own way, and have killed, and still killing, many innocent people. Russia is just worse. So don't let the degree of "doing bad things" take away from the fact that the other tribes are also abusive. USA may not kill the political opponents, but it is damn good at giving no chance to any radical change in the good direction of their tribe.
Anyway.... it is a sad and scary world. Humans, what a deplorable species.
I am making the documentary about Navalny freely available on our Peertube videos.trom.tf/w/b17jsjV11Khxv… and will be featured on the homepage. See how obvious it is that the guy was targeted and almost killed not long ago. Terrible.
Are we ever going to be an "intelligent human species", floating in space on a marvelous ball of wonders that we can take care of? Exploring the in and outs of it? Or are we going to continue as tribalistic and primitive creatures, exploiting and killing?....
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I made a gear review video of everything I used to walk across the Pyrenees for 2 months: https://vi...
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...I made a gear review video of everything I used to walk across the Pyrenees for 2 months: videos.trom.tf/w/wiAaM8awBjht9…
I hope it can be useful for others who plan to trek the GR11, HRP, GR10, or another similar thru-hike :)
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And the last days of my thru-hike across the Pyrenees: https://videos.trom.tf/w/rGU6BudRpmaNbZrNTBPG...
https://social.trom.tf/display/d...And the last days of my thru-hike across the Pyrenees: videos.trom.tf/w/rGU6BudRpmaNb…
I actually made it to the end! 😁
10.10.2023 13:33And the last days of my thru-hike across the Pyrenees: https://videos.trom.tf/w/rGU6BudRpmaNbZrNTBPG...https://social.trom.tf/display/d...