Tour Chernobyl with Elena on her Kawasaki Ninja

[lepton]

As I pass through the check point, I feel that I have entered an unreal world. In the dead zone, the silence of the villages, roads, and woods seem to scream something at me....something that I strain to hear....something that attracts and repels me both at the same time. It is divinely eerie - like stepping into that Salvador Dali painting with the dripping clocks.

This is the highest building in town. On the day of disaster, many people gathered on this roof to see the beautiful shining cloud above the Atomic Power Plant. It was the last thing many of them ever saw.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

(She warns that the site may be slow or down during periods of high activity.)

[Wassercrats]

Interesting. I skipped the text in the beginning and just looked at the pictures and captions up to chapter 23. Then the site slowed down. I'll finish the rest later.

[Snarpy]

There is a mirror at the University of Illinois that you can use:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/benoc/mirr.../chapter1.html

My family found this so interesting when we came across it a week or two ago that we downloaded the whole thing and will probably use parts of it for a presentation to the homeschooling group.

Snarpy

[Tom]

Very interesting!

It now is on its own domain:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com

[Wassercrats]

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/20...true-thing.asp

I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle.

Even the website itself ( http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ ) has kind of disclaimer on the bottom now.

[Randall]

Hmmm, interesting... Here's a reposted LA Times article from last May:

http://forums.ghosttowns.com/showpos...94&postcount=3

Randall

[Randall]

Nice save, BTW. This thread would have expired on Tuesday...

Randall

[Andilinks]

You'd wonder why somebody would go to the lengths to fake something like this.

Would it have been as interesting or attracted as much attention had it been a factual account of the standard tour? What is the "message?" Is it purely an effort to educate about the dangers of nuclear power and expose the suffering caused in that area? This is a very intiguing question. The author claims that she did not do it for fame, but the site did become famous (if not her) and there had to be some forethought given to its structure.

Andi