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Traveling to Chernobyl

I can still remember the first time I KNEW I was going to go to Chernobyl. I was a freshman in college at a small private college in Louisiana, sitting outside before a history class with some friends, and I saw this picture on a guy's laptop. It was this ferris wheel surrounded by trees with snow on the ground. I asked him where it was and he said it was Chernobyl. I filed that knowledge away to search for on my phone during class, because I had never even heard of Chernobyl (I know, ridiculous).