Aug 30, 2006
Disaster Vacations
Move over sex tourism, now we’ve got disaster vacations. Voyeur vultures? Nah. There’s something poetically humbling about disaster. I’m seriously considering the Chernobyl tour.
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Beware! An audio slide show was forwarded to me earlier in the summer for the 20th anniversary of that disaster and I seriously wrote her back saying she should have put a *graphic content* disclaimer on the email.
But I guess I’m a wuss about such things: didn’t do Pnom Penh either.
For a sort of ‘disaster tourism’ from home, check out ogrish.com.
Warning:*graphic content*
But I may be confusing ‘personal disasters’ for your discussion of larger ones.
I refound the link I mentioned.
Very well taken photos of very intense subject matter.
Important informtion but a definite ‘downer’-
*graphic content*
Be prepared to see what radiation does to the human body, by which I mean the bodies of human children.
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/chernobyl.aspx
I’ve seriously considering that too. y’know, go now before it becomes too Disney.
we always have the gulf coast at our doorstep, although it is not quite as exotic.
meet you in Kiev in march?