Freedom is Your Way!

My story on wandering the Crimean coast of the Black Sea is in the April issue of Men's Journal. It's not online. Here's an excerpt:
Sure, the stinking heaps were a bummer, but ultimately they’d be easier to remedy than the condos, refineries and freeways that blight California. And more to the point: the Ukrainians just cast off the shackles of almost a century of dictatorship. Let them throw a little trash. Go ahead, drive your Lata onto the beach, slip into your banana hammock, start a bonfire, take a dump in the sand, crank up the techno and chuck a bottle out the window. One definition of freedom is simply breaking the rules and doing whatever the hell you want.
Update: This story is now online at Andrew McGarry Photography with many great photographs.
Photo by Andrew McGarry.