Faith on the way

Vera has three children: eleven -year -old Olesya, eight -year -old Vadim and three -month Taisiya. And also a dog - a dog of an unknown breed named Mr. Pibodi. All of them on Verina “Lada Grant” went from Moscow to Vladivostok three weeks ago, and when they get, they would go back. So Vera decided to spend her maternity leave

Vera Bashmakova is a biologist by education, the editor of the Biomolecula project and an independent mother of three children. Large Mother-Help-Lino, as she calls herself. On the first day of summer, Vera put her children in “Lada Grant” (she put the younger one, to be precise - the children have not yet been sitting in three months), whistled the dog (he immediately jumped into the salon), loaded the trunk with everything necessary, and she sat behind the wheel. All necessary is a tent, barbecue and coal, canned food, burner, clothes and medicines, a wheelbase for car seres and much, much more.

The route, which has been going on for three weeks for three weeks: Moscow - Vladivostok - Moscow. A large mother intends to do this path behind the wheel independently, like everything that she does in life. Vera saved up on the trip and rented a Moscow apartment before leaving. The first two weeks of the journey were driving on two cars: in the second car, on a short trip with Vera and her children, the father of her youngest daughter Anton and three of his sons, from three to ten years old, went. Together they visited Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Mari El and drove into Tatarstan, where Vera got into an accident.

We stagger along Vladimir Photo: From the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

No one, fortunately, was injured, but the car had to repair a week. From Tatarstan Vera, Olesya, Vadim, Taisiya and Mr. Pibodi are already going alone - Anton and his sons came to return to Moscow. Now the family drives the Perm Territory and explores the Kungur caves. Ahead of Yekaterinburg, Ufa and Novosibirsk.

Vera Bashmakova told “such matters” as and why she decided to turn the vacation that it was customary to spend at home with a baby on an extreme journey through all of Russia.

Why is it all

I conceived this journey when I became pregnant. Then I had no particular confidence in tomorrow, in anything at all. But the most important thing - I imagined with horror a maternity summer. With my older children, I experienced “classic” decrees: all summer in the country, the whole circle of communication - the same mothers, who, like fish thrown ashore, open their mouths in the same conversations: how much we slept and how much we ate. I myself would agree to dive again, I like to dance around the babies, to doll them. But I felt sorry for older children: we got used to a very active life, went somewhere almost every weekend, went on long travels on vacation. And I thought: what if I can not change the lifestyle with the birth of the baby? I weighed everything and realized: I can. Then I began to think: where are we going to go in this case? Indeed, in all previous travels we had a strict time frame, I had no more than a month of vacation. And now the whole summer is ahead: as much as the school allows children. And I thought that this is our, perhaps, the only chance to pass through all of Russia from the edge to the edge.

Dense styling! Photo: from the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

A car trip is very comfortable. We often go somewhere in this way, at least for a week: for example, to Abkhazia last fall. These are the best impressions for the whole year. And most importantly: if you have the habit of traveling, you have a feeling at home.

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The journey is not perceived as some kind of stress-it is just life. There is no feeling: we left the house, now we’ll squeeze our teeth, we’ll go through this, this is and this and return home. On the contrary: we can see a huge number of new places and at the same time practically do not lose any basic values ​​of an urban person like clean clothes and a hot bath. Every three days it is definitely achievable, and more often, in general, do not: you can swim in the rivers.

Honestly, I regretted a little that I formulated my first post about the trip , as if I want to prove something to someone: because I do not want to call anyone to a duel, "I do not want to put my foot on my chest." If a person believes that this is unacceptable to him, then he needs this not.

My task is to show nothing so, and what is possible

That there are a huge number of life options, and this is one of them, possible and happy. I did not turn to someone-but as if to myself the same, which would never have decided on it. I wanted to show myself: girl, you can live differently!

I have a very cheap car - Lada Grant - and a small budget. Yes, she is small, I would like at least Largus - but there is no money for it. The car does not limit me, everything is placed in it. It is cramped, but not critical.

Traveler Tai, age - three months

Taya is a very calm and cheerful girl. The fact that we are going somewhere does not particularly bother her, because absolutely everything excites her. For her, everything is an impression, understand? She is very small. I really like to watch how it develops and adds every day. Now she begins to rely on her elbows - and she is only three months and a week. I like it terribly. Every day I do her massage, we play with her all the time. Older children bastard from her, do a lot with her. Someone wears her all the time in their arms, shows something, jumps in front of her. If she gets tired, her eyes just close, and she falls asleep - that's all.

Vera and Taya photo: from the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

Suppose we spent the night in a tent. As a rule, I wake up the first to the first of the children, Taya wakes up. I change her, massage, feed it - at this time my older children get up, they all collect. About half an hour later, Tai falls asleep, we transfer it to the stroller. We have a stroller, which is redone in a car seats, it is very convenient.

We assemble a tent, put everything in the car, go on. If she wakes up, we just stop, I feed her. For all these days, we had only one day, when she slept little: she fell asleep for half an hour and immediately woke up, we stopped a lot and drove a little. The weather changed, maybe this was the case.

Olesya and Vadim, eleven and eight years

It is clear that they are children. There are things that they need to remind, but there are things that need to be done with them, because some can be tied. I am calm about this: if they do something wrong, I don’t scold, because I understand that interest will disappear from this. I try to have an adventure and joy that is happening.

With Olesya (we call her Liu) and Vadim I have been traveling since they are five years old and two years old. Then - honestly, I admit it - it was too early for them, but I did not have enough experience to understand this. Now they have the perfect age for long travel and adventure.

My daughter has not yet begun an transitional age, it is entirely on my side: it supports me in everything, I do not need to achieve something from her-we do everything for each other simply because we love each other. She still does not look at me appraisingly, from the side, as adolescents do.

Vadim and Olesya on Mount Big Bogdo near Lake Baskunchak Photo: From the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

And my son is a complex child, I have been looking for a key to him for a very long time, everything that my daughter was given at a time, he took a bunch of strength. Only in the last couple of years I feel that we are on the right track. I have a lot of hopes for this summer, I really hope that we will have time for a lot with him during this time. Not in the sense of classes in school subjects, although this is also important, of course, but in the sense of development, personality movement.

It is important to me that we continue to engage in the road. A daughter at school is studying well, but for the whole academic year we said that it could be much better with mathematics if she had been specially engaged in somewhere. She even entered one circle, but I was pregnant and could not carry her. Then we decided to tighten mathematics on our own this summer - this is our challenge. We have a norm on the tasks, we solve them on the road. I am very pleased that she is fond of this and is engaged in pleasure.

Vadim also gave all sorts of tasks, we defeated them into the whole summer and do them. Since he is younger, his motivation sometimes sags, but I try to maintain interest. And often he himself asks me to deal with him.

Dog nicknamed Mr. Pibodi

The dog loves our trips very much. We have disagreements with him that he comes home in Moscow, but always jumps into the car with great pleasure. Honestly, Mr. Pibodi is not the most educated dog: we suspect that he had a rather difficult childhood.

We found him on the street and first thought to find the owners, because he was in the collar, and the collar was good. But it turned out that he was still given his puppy in this good collar to the construction site, at the construction site he was mistaken for a long time - and it seems that he was greatly beaten there and mocked him. Then the object was closed, and the dog was kicked out into the street.

Dog life photo: from the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

It is difficult to re -educate him: he is nervous and constantly protects us. If someone just comes to us at some kind of distance too close to him, he is ready to break him into pieces. Since, as a rule, good people come to us, it’s difficult: the dog constantly barks, barks, barks. If traffic cops stop us, I just have to get out of the car, because it is impossible to talk.

When we stop in the city and rent an apartment, Mr. Pabodi spends the night in the car. But in Kirov and Yoshkar-Ole, we came across very sensitive owners: “Why will the dog sleep in the car, let's spend it in the apartment! She will not spoil anything? " Although I had no confidence that the dog would not spoil anything, and I said about it, we were still called together: “Well, spoil and spoil! Let him, at least, spends it normally. "

Week in Elabuga

In Elabug, we got into an accident: we drove into the city and simply collided with another car. There was nothing criminal, no one was injured, but the car had to be repaired for a week.

The hotel in Elabuga was very glorious - quite cheap and at the same time worthy, it is clear that people do it not for fear, but for conscience. The city itself, of course, leaves an oppressive impression: few people on the streets, very few cars, it is clear that everyone is very poor. Most of the stores are alcoholmarkets. And even in supermarkets, shelves with alcohol occupy a lot of space. A lot of drunk on the streets who just do not knit the bast. This, unfortunately, is an ordinary provincial story. But Elabuga, at least, has something behind the soul.

Poor Kerosinochka photo: from the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

This is a city with a great history, and we moved it along and across. We went to Nizhnekamsk to the petrochemical plant, it was interesting for children to inspect all this: oil tower, torches burned in the sky - they were delighted. In Elabug, we visited the damn settlement - this is such an ancient excavation where nothing is left, except for the old tower. We spent all day on him, sewed everything, the children played catching up. Then they discussed what they saw: they found out where all this came from, why it is called that.

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There is also a monument to the Bulgarian emir Ibrahim. It looks as if he would give anyone in the ground - apparently, this is precisely the monument and erected by this quality. It turned out interesting, although the monuments are generally rarely good.

There are several museums in the city itself: for example, we were in the Durova Museum, it was made with such love, with such a soul-to see a lot of expensive. There is a Marina Tsvetaeva museum, although, unfortunately, this is not the place where she was at least a little happy. Tsvetaeva excursionists are taken to the grave of Tsvetaeva. Such a town. When we drove into Elabuga, I regretted a little that we would not stay in it. But life turned out so that I regretted that I regretted it.

A tent over the Volga and friends in Perm

In the tent, so far we spent the night four, it seems, nights - on the rest of the days the weather was so bad that it would turn into a mockery of everyone. Stopped at Sviyazhsky - there is such a place near Kazan. Once Pushkin went there and said that he looks like a Buyan island. Since then, the inhabitants of Kazan Pushkin have not forgotten and all the time they talk about it. It is very, very beautiful, we were already there in the winter, for the New Year. Therefore, this time we did not go to the city itself, but went to the shore of the Volga over it. They found on the Internet that there is a point where you can climb. But it was not said there, what a rise there! The road is such that first you need to go right along the Volga, along the edge of the water, and then sharply turn - and upwards 30 degrees at once. My car was not the first time pulled out, I had to let go of the brake and carefully move back along the same path, dropping all the children so that nothing happened to them. Then you drive upstairs, you drive a little along the grief, go down-and in front of you open an incredible view of the Volga, to this island.

It began to evening, the lights lit up, they gave shades of all colors and were reflected in the Volga

And the sky was also some incredible flowers. And the whole meadow was overgrown with flowers and strawberries.

Everyone is sleeping as a photo: from the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

Today, the tent and I spent the night on the shore of Sylva. A wonderful night in such a fishing lapel: very clean and very beautiful. On the other side of the river is “piece of iron”, wagons stretch along it all night. We felt good.

Now we are in tire fitting in Kungur. This is a small charming merchant town with brick houses. It can be seen that once he was rich and noble. Next to him is an ice cave of incredible beauty.

We lowered the wheel and bent the disk. Apparently, this is the legacy of the Kirov nightmare highway - Perm: there I got a wheel into the pit, but with the disk and tire everything was normal, the pressure in the tire did not fall. And then, most likely, some small pit at the entrance to the kungur finished the disk, and he bent so that he lowered his tire. But everyone quickly corrected me, and we can then travel.

View of the Cheboksary reservoir, Mari El Photo: From the personal archive of Vera Bashmakova

In Perm, we stopped at my Facebook acquaintance: she wrote that she would be glad if we arrive at her. Our children became friends, we went to different places for three days. There were virtual friends - and now they are already real.

I am financially dealing financially, although gasoline has risen in price: when I expected the trip, it was cheaper, and the total amount came less. It turns out to spend from three to five thousand per day, of which a thousand or two of them are on housing if we stop in the city. In Moscow, I spend less per day, about two thousand-we are unpretentious, although we do not limit myself to anything.

We are a little more stagger in the Urals, and then we will move the Urals and go to Siberia. On July 2, Tae will be four months, it will be necessary to show her pediatrician, I plan to do this in Novosibirsk.

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