{"id":146,"date":"2006-10-02T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/?p=146"},"modified":"2006-10-02T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T10:00:08","slug":"%d1%8f-%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%b6%d1%83-%d1%80%d0%be%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d1%8e-i-see-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2006\/10\/02\/%d1%8f-%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%b6%d1%83-%d1%80%d0%be%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d1%8e-i-see-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d0\u00af \u00d0\u00b2\u00d0\u00b8\u00d0\u00b6\u00d1\u0192 \u00d0\u00a0\u00d0\u00be\u00d1\u0081\u00d1\u0081\u00d0\u00b8\u00d1\u017d  (I See Russia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here in Little Diomede with Russia only 2.5 miles away.\u00c2\u00a0 I am taken back by the beautiful views in front of me.\u00c2\u00a0 When the weather is nice this is a very picturesque place.<\/p>\n<p>My trip started from Unalakleet at 9:00 AM Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 A crew of us hopped on BSSD airways and flew to Nome where a couple of us hopped off.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the crew went on to Wales.\u00c2\u00a0 Vanessa and I were the ones who stayed in Nome.\u00c2\u00a0 We were the lucky ones that were able to take the helicopter all the way from Nome to Little Diomede.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"My Ride to the island\" style=\"width: 367px;height: 274px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/me_heli_close.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When we got out to the island we were greeted by the staff and a few kids.\u00c2\u00a0 After we got settled in and had a bite to eat we went out to hike up to the top of the island.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a beautiful day.\u00c2\u00a0 We started hiking up the &#8220;North Trail&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a picture of the village after hiking for a little bit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Little Dio North Trail\" style=\"width: 402px;height: 301px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/dio_north_trail.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When we got near the top I snapped this self portrait where you can see the heli pad by Little Diomede Village, and Big Diomede (Russia) in the background.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Russia Little Dio\" style=\"width: 396px;height: 296px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/me_russia_heli_pad.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We walked across the top of the island which was very flat.\u00c2\u00a0 We got to where we were directly over the top of the village.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is what it looks like from above.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Little Dio from above\" style=\"width: 405px;height: 304px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/dio_top_down.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The school is the building with the red roof.\u00c2\u00a0 Just up the hill from that is where Nathan, Ben, and Elise live.\u00c2\u00a0 Nathan and Ben were kind enough to let me sleep on their<\/p>\n<p>couch.<\/p>\n<p>We continued our hike moving around to the other side of the village.\u00c2\u00a0 On our decent Nathan took this picture of me with Russia in the background.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Side Russia Backdrop\" style=\"width: 398px;height: 298px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/me_russia.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>show off this amazing place.\u00c2\u00a0 As the sun was setting over Russia we were all sitting around visiting as we were eating dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a very nice day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Russian Sunset\" style=\"width: 404px;height: 303px\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/10\/russia_sunset.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here in Little Diomede with Russia only 2.5 miles away.\u00c2\u00a0 I am taken back by the beautiful views in front of me.\u00c2\u00a0 When the weather is nice this is a very picturesque place. My trip started from Unalakleet at 9:00 AM Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 A crew of us hopped on BSSD airways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}