Destination: USA

Ow ow ow - whose bloody idea was it to take a skinny seated dirt bike . . ? UPDATED

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 | By yoshic | Views [235]

I am pretty confident that Phil will agree with me that even a pimped out gel inserted dirt bike seat is still a bloody bastard dirt bike seat! Who in their right mind would want to ride for hours at a time on one? Bloody idiots we say! 1000 miles ... Read more >

Fake Baja? UPDATED

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 | By yoshic | Views [265]

It seems very strange to get to La Paz from the road North. From Ensenada and for the next 1000 miles of roads south it's very rural, desert scrub and small scale. Then after days of this suddenly you stumble into La Paz and find a Walmart and Applebees.... Read more >

Spring in Deutschland

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 | By gnome-san | Views [321]

Sun and spring rain have brought out beautiful green leaves, plums, forsythia, tulips, and daffodils, contrasted against green moss along the streams and on the trees of oak beech and birch. Near small villages in the Kaiserslautern district is part ... Read more >

Tags: eurasian animals, streams

Photos: Old world animals and other interests

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 | By gnome-san | Photo Gallery

Tags: eurasian animals, springs

Stars and No Smog

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 | By smola22 | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry

Corey was bungee tied to steering wheel as he navigated through the Pacific Ocean in his dad’s 60 foot sailboat. I was wearing a neon life jacket for the all good it would do if I was to fall overboard. With my over-reactive imagination, I had already ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Photos: Family Photos

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 | By yoshic | Photo Gallery

100 Shades of Green and Aloha

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 | By bekahmulberg | Views [233] | Scholarship Entry

I believe that the key to finding happiness in modern times is simplicity. For 3 months, I relocated to the Big Island Hawaii to work on a remote 9-acre farm in the Jungle. With a small suitcase and no electronics, I spent the bulk of my trip living in ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Will Drive For Food

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 | By cookmixmingle | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry

My travel treasure is a road trip with a friend to visit my sister who was working in Charlotte, NC. Started off simple enough, music... check... GPS, check... gas in tank, check. Little did I know that her GPS wasn't that reliable and would end up ... Read more >

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Enjoy

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 | By visit | Views [91] | Scholarship Entry

Enjoying is the center point we must look for it in every steps and decisions, we can steel feeling happy agree and wonderful.

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Photos: Los Angeles

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 | By lhartjen | Photo Gallery

Velvet Crush

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 | By lhartjen | Views [410]

Los Angeles is a city of broken charm. Like a pair of Angels wings wrapped in crushed velvet this wood promises a touch of stardom at every turn for tourists like me seeking a brush with fame only to be turned away by the finality of each ubiquitous ... Read more >

Photos: Home address

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 | By finally | Photo Gallery

20 days left...

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 | By finally | Views [865] | Comments [2]

Time flies!!! We are actually leaving our nice comfy life in NYC in 20 days AND our East Village apt that we love and know we won't be able to find such a great apt when we come back (we got so lucky with this apt in terms of location, size, rent, ... Read more >

Tags: apt, friends, leaving, nyc, work

The other night we sat around reading

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 | By less_is_more | Views [416]

The other night we sat around reading the Lonely Planet 'East Africa' travel book trying to decide what things we don't want to miss.  The list (for me) is quite long actually.  Because we are tent camping for a lot of the trip it only seems ... Read more >

Tags: africa, hostels, parks, wwoof

Photos: Making Tracks

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 | By makingtracks | Photo Gallery