November 18, 2004
Moscow and Chicago
Jesus, I was going through some old files at work and I realized it's been a year since I was in Moscow. That was such an awesome trip... and I've been so busy since then that I just haven't noticed the time flying by.
I heard that they tore down the Hotel Rossiya and are going to build a block of luxury apartments in its place. It was an architectural monstrosity, granted, but I still felt a little melancholic when I heard the news. That place had such history... you could feel it when you were inside the thing, like you were back in Brezhnev's Moscow in the 70s. I'm glad I had the opportunity to stay there while it was still possible.
Anyway, as I keep complaining about, I've been sitting on a ton of photos from different cities that I haven't done anything about. So finally I cleared a couple of hours free and put up a batch from when I was hanging out with Jeremy and Hannah in Chicago last month.
Take a look and tell me what you think.
I found a new gallery script which makes putting these up a bit less time intensive. I'm not really ecstatic about the result, but just don't have the time to build these manually anymore.
Posted by case at November 18, 2004 11:10 PM