by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 1, 2014 | Highway Highlight, Recent Articles, Spring 2014
Thinking about the Germany of days past conjures up images of a lederhosen-wearing, beer-slinging, sausage-consuming folk. In Bavaria, the most southern of the German states, such scenes still pepper the countryside. Bavaria is also one of the most beautiful German...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 5, 2014 | Fall 2013, Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
Lost in Tokyo Only my sheer terror could distract me from the excruciating pain I was experiencing. I was only six years old, was alone on a train, and was hardly able to breathe because I was surrounded by strangers. And my fingers were stuck in the train door—the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Highway Highlight, Recent Articles, Winter 2014
Julius Caesar, the Apostle Paul, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain—what do all these men have in common? They all traveled on and were inspired by one of the earliest and most-traveled roads in history: the Appian Way. Built in 312 BC, the Appian Way strategically...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Banner, Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path, Recent Articles, Winter 2014
Many tourists who fill the bustling streets of Paris do not realize that there is a twisting network of tunnels and caverns deep beneath their feet—and that it is lined with the bones of the dead. These tunnels and caverns are part of the eerie underground world of...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Recent Articles, Service, Winter 2014
In 2012, 22-year-old Moroni Jesus Ramos Olague lived on the streets of Mexico City. His head was filled with dreams of one day studying in the United States. He was a skilled young man—he had graduated from high school at age 17 and had completed a course on computers...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Profile, Recent Articles, Winter 2014
If you’ve ever wondered how safe it might be to travel to another country, Landes Holbrook knows the answer. Holbrook is the international security analyst at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, and also has extensive experience doing security analysis for...
