Backpacking can be tough

Driving to China (ish) - Day 10

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May 10th 2015
Day 10 - Moscow to Nizhiny Novgorod Our three night stay in Moscow was over and it was time to get back on the road again. Traffic was heavy for 10 miles leaving the city, perhaps from those returning back east after the holiday weekend. Navigating was easy......it's a 35 mile straight shot along the M7 highway. Once out of the Moscow suburbs, we fell into a familiar pattern of overtaking tr ... read more

Europe » Russia » Volga » Nizhny Novgorod

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more