Welcome to where I chronicle my travels!

I am back home now after recently completing my capstone project for my Master of Arts degree and traveling on Amtrak across the United States.

 

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Is There Enough Sociology In History?

by Oliver | Dec 2, 2015

Image retrieved from shared post on Facebook One important thing this trip is starting to make me realize is that we have removed too much sociology from history. That is to say we often discuss modern history without enough reflection on society. This approach makes... read more

Perm 36 – Part Of The Gulag System

by Oliver | Nov 27, 2015

Perm 36 Guard House Me inside part of the Punishment Barracks Perm 36, known as the Memorial Center of Political Repression, is a former forced labor camp located near Perm, Russia. This camp was part of the system of prisons during the time of the Soviet Union, which... read more

Highlights From Yekaterinburg

by Oliver | Nov 26, 2015

Church On Blood This church is the very reason I stopped in Yekaterinburg. The Church On Blood was something that I remembered from high school. It is where the last Czar of Russia and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. The site used to be a house that the... read more

Cold, Snow, Wind, And Starbucks!

by Oliver | Nov 22, 2015

I took the train from Kazan to Yekaterinburg, which involved crossing two zones. Yekaterinburg is roughly one-thousand miles from Moscow and sits in the Ural mountains on the continental divide. I spent the afternoon with my new friend Jiang. Jiang is a Physics PHD... read more

“The Cool Sheriff” Mosque

by Oliver | Nov 21, 2015

Today, I ventured out in the snow toward the Kremlin in Kazan. The main difference between this Kremlin and the Moscow Kremlin is its construction of a white sandstone rather than red brick. Inside is the Qolşärif Mosque (pronunciation sounds like to “Cool-Sheriff”... read more