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Chernobyl and Pripyat

Neeley and I visited Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone while we were Kiev.  Much has been written about the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, so it makes little sense to repeat it here, you can easily find numerous accounts of the tragic incident on the internet.  In the past few years, many photos by other photographers have been published and intrigued us, so we decided to go visit the ghost town and see it for ourselves.

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Kiev, Ukraine, our escape from Schengen

Neeley and I are planning on being in Europe until the end of the year, when we will be teaching a photography workshop in Rome. However, as USA passport holders, we are only allowed to be within the Schengen area of Europe for 90 days every 180 days.  Sitting down with a calendar, we quickly realized we would need to leave the Schengen area for about a week to stay legal in our travels.  After some staring at a world map for a bit, we decide to go to Kiev and explore a place neither of us had ever been to.

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