7.9.11

 The Hotel, Chernobyl, Ukraine April '10  The only hotel in town, used exclusively by the Chernobyl administration- workers and officials who manage the power plant/surrounding exclusion zone. It's made of aluminum. "Jaunty" is one of several words that do not come to mind when I think of the Chernobyl hotel.

 NY, May '11.  This person said "I'm going to show you the "real mother****ing New York". People sometimes think I'm a German tourist... but I'm not. I'm mostly French. French Canadian, probably... but I was raised by Italians. This is actually true.

Brighton Beach, early spring '11