by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Features, Summer 2013
When most Americans hear about Sweden, they think of Swedish fish, the Muppet chef, and IKEA—but the response from those who have actually been to Sweden is much different. “The word that came to my mind was pristine,” says Leslie Barnts of her first trip to Sweden....
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Features, Summer 2013
On a sunny day nearly 10 years ago, Barbara Lawson of San Francisco wandered through a residential neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, with a local colleague. As they walked, she noticed that most of the people she saw were either elderly or children. When she remarked...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Features, Summer 2013
An estimated three thousand ships have met their doom off the unforgiving South African Coast—that’s one destroyed craft and crew for every kilometer of coastline. Beginning in the early fifteenth century, around the time when Vasco de Gama and Columbus were sailing...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Summer 2013
Turn your pocket watch back 160 years, and Jacksonville, Oregon, explodes with activity. Gold fever has lured more than 2,000 settlers to the mines, and residents spend those gold nuggets in Jacksonville’s saloons, gambling halls, and shops. A few precious flakes even...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path, Summer 2013
Among the larger-than-life statues of ancient gods—called the moai—runners from all over the world gather every June for the Easter Island Marathon. Many of these runners choose to come here because Easter Island is one of the grandest mysteries of Earth’s history....
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2013 | Away For A While, Summer 2013
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. —attributed to Harun Yahya The Coconut Milk Run Not many people have plucked passion fruit from trees in the South Pacific after...
