I have an affinity for both motorcycle touring and post apocalyptic tales, and so I read the account of one woman's two-wheeled trip through the ghost towns near Chernobyl with keen interest.

It's unsettling stuff, and I am suitably unsettled. But like a too-quickly mixed glass of Kool-Aid—or a person with too much media exposure—I settle again soon enough. More's the shame.

Song in my head: "Jane" by The Barenaked Ladies