by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 16, 2012 | Field Notes, Service, Summer 2012
With 12 other college students from the United States and Canada, I took a leap of faith. We each signed our names on a contract committing us to a trip across the globe to Thailand. We each spent six months preparing to travel overseas and raising the money to fund...
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 14, 2012 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
A shrieked expletive immediately alerts eight travelers that something is awry. Miriam stares in disbelief at her ticket, profanity steadily flowing from her lips. “I think we’re at the wrong airport!” The rest of us scoff, trying to convince ourselves we couldn’t...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 14, 2012 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
As I walked around Changzhou, China, with my six American friends one night, we were greeted with the usual stares and shouts of “helloooooooooo!” Just to explore, we randomly decided to turn left down a street instead of going the usual way. Above the clouds of...
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 | Mar 1, 2012 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
Gang and mafia members, that’s who! Traveling through an unfamiliar city can be a bit nerve-racking—even frightening. It was in this frame of mind that I landed in New York City with my brother. We were flying home for the summer after finishing a semester at...
