by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 25, 2013 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path, Winter 2013
On the Chinese New Year—February 10 in 2013—magnificent firework displays will light up the night sky above Chinatowns everywhere. In keeping with Chinese tradition, participants may give small red envelopes containing money to children or to young, single friends....
by Stowaway Magazine | Aug 31, 2012 | Fall 2012, Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path
Twenty-year-old German composer Felix Mendelssohn is at sea more than 1,200 miles from home. The rough surf hisses and heaves, tossing the boat recklessly through the waves. Reaching what seems to be the edge of the world, he enters Fingal’s Cave on the coast of...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jun 7, 2012 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path, Summer 2012
Go grab your surfboards and hit the beach—you’re in England! Surfboards? That’s right. Though England may seem like a travel destination with only old houses and rolling countryside, there is a budding surfing population that attracts some attention away from the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 16, 2012 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path, Summer 2012
“Run, eat, maybe sleep, repeat.” That’s how Marti Bowles describes a Ragnar Relay. Bowles’s adventure began when she became a last-minute fill-in on a professor’s team just a week before her first relay. This spur-of-the-moment experience sparked an addiction to the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 11, 2012 | Fall 2012, Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path
With more than 450 spirit sightings reported since 2007, saying that the Winchester Mystery HouseTM in San Jose, California, is haunted may be an understatement. Many of the visitors to the house claim to have seen the ghost of Sarah Winchester, who owned the house in...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path
Offering 469 miles of beautiful forests, hills, and gardens, Blue Ridge Parkway is known as “America’s Favorite Drive.” Winding south through the Smoky Mountains, the highway runs from Virginia to North Carolina. Both ends are home to a national park: the Great Smoky...
