Chapter 9

After gorging himself on king crab in Vladivostok until he was sick of it, he took a twelve-hour train ride to Khabarovsk. Since both were in the “Russian Far East,” he had figured they’d be close. But as expected of such a massive country, they were five hundred miles apart, even within the same region. Khabarovsk also bordered the Amur River, so the humidity was considerable. Seeing the word “Хабаровск (Khabarovsk)” painted on the station’s vivid green roof, he couldn’t have been more relieved.