Caucasus Reading List

04 April 2004
1 minute read
Now I'm reading Nicholas Griffin's "Caucasus - Mountain Men and Holy Wars".

Other books I've been thinking about include:
  • Panttipataljoona (Jokipii, 1968) - Finnish volunteers fighting for German SS in Caucasus
  • Hadji Murad (Tolstoy, 1904) - Story of a Chechen warlord fighting with and against the legendary Imam Shamil
Let me know if you have any thoughts. As usual, I prefer historical accounts over Lonely Planet.

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Personal passions: motorcycle travel

08 July 2009. 1 minute read.
Yesterday in GCDS there was a session about personal passions. First Jono Bacon gave a talk about the Burnout Cycle, and then various community members talked about what they do outside the sphere of hacking: running, cooking, building experimental airplanes and so forth. I gave a quick talk about adventure motorcycling, speaking about my 2004 trip around the Black Sea,...

Travel preparations

30 June 2004 in Helsinki, Finland. 2 minute read.
This trip will be headed to the Black Sea, and possibly to the Caucasus region. Research for the Caucasus part of the trip has been going on for quite a while, but now it looks like the area might be a bit too restless for travel.