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It’s the worst part of traveling: being so tired that you miss the amazing sights you traveled miles to see. Instead, you spend your first few days of your trip, curled up in your bed, sound asleep. Have you ever landed in the new country only to feel bone-tired, pounding headache, and an overwhelming apathy?
Welcome to jet lag. This is your body complaining about … Read more »
Of all the throwaway lines I’ve fed into my travel-writing biography over the years, one creates the most fascination with readers. I am, according to a major American newspaper, “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” This little quip, which appeared … Read more »
Kristina Perkins
Age: 28
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Quote: Don’t mock the wanderer, unless you too have wandered.
About a week and a half ago my train pulled up to the platform in Tundla, India where a sea of Indian military men were waiting for it. There was a rush of commotion as we all pushed towards the doors- a commotion which only grew when we discovered all the doors were locked. The train sat there with its locked doors for 5 minutes while the military men grew angrier and angrier, beginning to … Read more »
Cost/day: $20-25 per person
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? There is a type of vehicle in Luang Namtha that I have not seen anywhere else in Laos or Southeast Asia. The locals call it a tec-tec, which I’m assuming is onomatopoeic because that is the sound the extremely loud, water-cooled engine makes.
Describe a typical … Read more »
“If there’s one key concept to remember amid the excitement of your first days on the road, it’s this: Slow down.
Just to underscore the importance of this concept, I’ll state it again: SLOW . . . DOWN.
For first time vagabonders, this can be one of the hardest travel lessons to grasp, since it will seem that there are so many amazing sights … Read more »
“Modern education ignores the need for solitude: hence a decline in religion, in poetry, in all the deeper affections of the spirit: a disease to be doing something always, as if one could never sit quietly and let the puppet show unroll itself before one: an inability to lose oneself in mystery and wonder while, like a wave lifting up into new seas, the history of the world develops around us.” –Freya Stark, The … Read more »
Starting from Minneapolis, Minnesota, I spent 30 days exploring the United States (traveling to 37 states) and documenting the faces and places I saw on the Greyhound Bus system with photographs and short stories. I showered rarely, slept infrequently, ate poorly, and I loved every uncomfortable minute of it.
My fascination with the culture of the Greyhound started in college when I would take the bus to Montana to visit a dear friend. As I … Read more »
Travel has a way of slowing you down, of waking you up, of pulling you up out of your daily routines and seeing life in a new way. This new way of looking at the world need not end when you resume your life at home.
Here are 5 key ways in which the … Read more »
Dylan Drake
Age: 37
Hometown: Missoula, Montana
Quote: “Don’t be afraid – it’s only the unknown that is scary.”