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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jordanrossi | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
If your friend says, “Let’s take a shortcut. It’ll be quicker” don’t believe them. In April of my international study year, while I was attending the University of New Mexico, my friend, who lived in the dorm next door, suggested we drive from Albuquerque ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By tatif | Views [113] | Scholarship Entry
“Go to Narnia. Forget about the Cliff Walk, the Mansions, or Thames Street. Narnia is the place to see around here!” I had just arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, after driving down there all the way from Boston during rush hour. At the same time, I was ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By 10centtravels | Views [65] | Scholarship Entry
“We are doing this one, right?” I wishfully pointed to the map of a hike labeled three hours duration. “Oh, no. We are doing this longer one. We can tackle it in half the time, then cook hotdogs for dinner.” I read the estimated hike time he mentioned.... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By armeyer | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry
Every year, thousands of people travel to Europe to see some of the oldest buildings in the world. They tread over cracked cobblestone paths, walking in the footsteps of ancestors years before. They have more history and more ancient buildings than the ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By miketheguide | Views [448] | Scholarship Entry
"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him.” - Super Soul I stood stretching in the searing Nevada sun, gazing ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By thuyduongvu | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
My travel treasures will be story of places I discover, the people that I have met and the beautiful creations that God has created thousand of years ago that has continued to evolve and remain beautiful. Traveling has taught me to be on my own and to ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By miracleblue | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
No one should be up at this ungodly hour. Pitch dark, the third car in a long single file line, on some back country road. It's too dark to see the row after row of Almond trees in full bloom, beautiful to look at, horrible on the nose and eyes. The ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By talleypcb | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry
The stone from the gazebo is cool against my skin in the hot humid DC summer. I sit in the window with my feet stretched out in front of me, my book in my hands. It's a weekday and aside from a couple mothers with their small children enjoying a picnic ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jt_cunningham | Views [93] | Scholarship Entry
I've spent the majority of my life shacking up on the roads and cities of southern Minnesota, and it is ever a splendid sea of miniature forests covering highways, bad drivers, and open fields full of wheat and cow manure. Minnesota isn't anything special, ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By chaperada | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
“Let me introduce you to some friends of mine…” Our French guide is speaking English with a fake (or at least exaggerated) French accent, as he leads us around the corner to a storefront window full of dead rats hanging from very old traps. These are ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By ellecraney | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
Isn’t the idea of train travel glamorous? At the first mention of trains images of a starlet standing on a steamy train platform surrounded by hatboxes runs through my mind. When I booked my ticket on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight to take me from LA to Seattle ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By zhupie | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
Written on June 23, 2009 on Kailua beach, HI I stopped by today. To see you. You know, I suck at saying good-bye, especially to those I truly love. I love you with that inexpressible, unexplainable, wholesome kind of love - the one that can't be deceitful.... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By amstern | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry
The rain may be coming down in buckets, but nothing could’ve dampened my spirits on this most sacred of days. Opening Day of football season in Green Bay, Wisconsin is something truly spectacular for football fans and laypeople alike. Like Christmas or ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By babybago | Views [295] | Scholarship Entry
After a skiff ride across a channel to an island in Alaska, driving a 4x4 Rhino through old growth forests and across meadows, while constantly scanning for flora and fauna, you’ll realize that not being able to see the volcano on the other side of the ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By matthewjbrowman | Views [164]
Cross-posted with the entry from March 6, 2013 on www.highlanderwine.com/blog .
SIDEWAYS OREGON STYLE
Our friendship was formed at coffee shops and pubs. Southern Ontario twenty three years ago was a sight different than the world we know today.... Read more >
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