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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 | By annacarlson | Views [625] | Comments [3]
When your world gets turned upside-down, you have a simple choice: fight or flight. I chose flight, literally.
The night that I found out my dad had been having a 10 year affair with my mom's best friend, i did 2 things: 1) I cried like I've never ... Read more >
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 | By ashleyhelmick | Photo Gallery
Pre-trip excitement!
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 | By ashleyhelmick | Views [737]
Checking in here before I start my online check-in for my flight that leaves JAX in T-minus 19 hours!! That's right, friends, I leave tomorrow! I may or may not be still packing. If you know me at all, you already know the answer.. still packing! ... Read more >
Tags: first post, packing, travel, trial
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [505]
We must have looked like travel virgins, dressed as we were in new clothes and towing shiny new luggage. Even our passports were brand new with nary a stamp in them. And here we were boarding a cruise ship. Oh, the shame of it!
We ... Read more >
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery
Galveston to Barcelona (Again)
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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 | By cozycheri | Views [535]
In the event that anyone would like to read the full piece written for the scholarship, I have included it below. My official submission was scaled down to one part of this piece, due to the character amount requirements.
Catching a Moment
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Tags: alaska, japan, utah
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By kimdavey | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
I always loved the thought of Romance. A dazzling, tall, brunette, in tails whisking me round the dance floor of a hotel ballroom in Paris. Rose petals in marking a footpath to the bedroom, candles, and champagne. A private jet to tour the world, stopping ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By katierose | Views [258] | Scholarship Entry
My friends liked to tease that I was living in a “monastery.” We actually called it a “community,” but the word didn’t change the fact that I, a 22-year-old woman, was living with two older Lasallian Brothers– basically the male equivalent of nuns. I ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By paperavatar | Views [322] | Scholarship Entry
We are in an immigrant farm community in Florida, traveling with students while spring break marches onward in another life. Today, we have been tasked with rebuilding parts of a fire-damaged home. We are, for the most part, terrible at this, and I am ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By huzun | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
I happily walked down to another building of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, to have lunch with the Navajos, one of Native American tribes in the university and take a closer look at their culture. When I arrived, I saw the boys ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By sarahrose18 | Views [5217] | Scholarship Entry
Food is a magnetic force that brings friends and family together; there's just something about gathering around a good meal that fosters a strong connection between people. Food is our life source when we gather together to share it, we share our ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By carlym | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
Louisiana: D arrives a day late, on the tail-end of a food poisoning streak. Already she is loud and demanding, clinking together the disarrayed parts of her Shwinn road bike. All twenty seven riders in the group wander around the room like deactivated ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By jessicamarie | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
Let me write this all down because I've been thinking it too long, and thoughts can be a little tricky for me – they zip away from you, you know. It’s like trying to catch fish with your bare hands. First off, who doesn't like to see new places and ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By oneyellowromancandle | Views [304] | Scholarship Entry
I drive to a small clearing in the wet jungle, all overgrown in ferns and sunlight. Shola stands smiling beside a blue tub and metal folding chair, the look on her face all wrinkles and love like she'd been waiting for me at an alter all her life. She ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By rhonda | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
I bring muddy chinos to my favorite dry-cleaners near my home in Brooklyn. The mood is quiet, and except for the splash of multi-colored thread spools perched above the old-fashioned sewing machine, the room is all white.The kind owners are from Beijing, ... Read more >
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