Tag: travel
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Narrative Travel Writing Contest!
Pleased to announce I was selected a 3rd place winner of the 2015 TransitionsAbroad.com Narrative Travel Writing Essay Contest! I really admire the quality of content found at Transitions Abroad as they showcase authentic work, study, living, volunteering, and cultural immersion experiences. After two failed submissions, I’m so excited to finally be published! Find out more about…
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Top 8 Travel Quotes
Quotes that make me want to dust off my hiking boots, grab my passport and cast off into the life and current of travel. 8. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance, nothing is…
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Hunt for the American Bison
Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska, Oklahoma- Jan. 2015 American bison, often mistakenly called buffaloes, are symbolic of the Great Plains and weigh in as the heaviest land animals in North America. My cousin, an avid photographer and lover of all things indigenous, took me on a quest to find these gentle giants on Oklahoma’s…
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Grand Canyon: The Divine Abyss
Grand Canyon has one of the most extensive records of geologic history, representing over 2 billion years of sedimentation, mountain building and erosion. One writer described it as the Divine Abyss. March 2014: South Rim; Spring break camping trip
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Love Bridge in Košice, Slovakia
It’s become a trend in Europe for lovers to leave padlocks on bridges. To mark my last day in Slovakia, I went to Košice’s bridge downtown to say goodbye to the city and leave my own little tag of love.
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First Snow in Virginia
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Why I interned in Eastern Europe
I scrolled through the list of Student.Go internships, searching for something that might fulfill the requirements needed for my major in journalism. While sifting through positions from Miami to Louisville, Kampala and Bali, a paragraph about a photojournalism internship in Slovakia stood out on the screen. The ideal candidate should be able to work alone…
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The 7-Year Dream: We’re Backpacking Europe!
After 7 years of dreaming, planning and sporadic saving, my best friend LaVonna and I are finally going to backback Europe together. We’re planning on spending time with our pen pals in Austria, Germany and France while exploring a few more countries along the way. After spending a good portion of our lives obsessed with…
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The Wanderer
When it comes to the cliched traveler move, it doesn’t get more quoting Jack Kerouac than staring into the distance at a breathtaking landscape while reflecting deeply on everything you’ve experienced. I’ve named it the Wanderer pose, after my favourite painting by 19th century German painter Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.…
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We have to talk about Auschwitz
Auschwitz. How do I begin to speak about Auschwitz? The place fills my memory with snapshots. A doll’s chipped face lying next to its porcelain body A twisting metal sign promising work will make you free A mountain of shoes towering and spilling behind a glass case A sea of stoves stretching into the blue…
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Best Sites for Student Travelers
Whether you’re planning to backpack another continent, thinking about studying or interning abroad or are wanting to get out of town for a week, student travelers have great resources available to them. Note: Most are geared toward travelers not tourists 1. skyscanner Before starting most adventures, the stressful part is figuring out what’s the cheapest,…