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...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Field Notes, Profile
Kyle Jamison and James Chapman were college students in need of a fun, inexpensive summer escape. An adventure in Costa Rica sounded perfect to them. Now first-year medical students, they recount their week in Costa Rica and share insider tips for taking an adventure...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path
This spring, pack away your parachute, hang up your harness, and bind up your bungee, because the world of extreme sports can now offer you much more than the same old activities of jumping out of planes, hanging from cliffs, or diving off bridges with just a cord...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 29, 2011 | Field Notes, Highway Highlight
Interstate-90 is the longest interstate highway in the United States. Stretching from Seattle to Boston, it’s 3,099.07 miles long and crosses 14 states. Whether you’re going the entire distance or just partway, here is a selection of some of the popular sites along...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 26, 2011 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
I never got used to the rooster that cock-a-doodle-dooed at four o’clock every morning for six weeks while I lived in the small community of El Bonete, Nicaragua. Yet three weeks into my adventure, none of the drastic changes from my city lifestyle had merited the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 26, 2011 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
Every tourist visits Versailles while in France, but my friend and I—two crazy girls armed with backpacks and French dictionaries—were not “every tourist.” Wanting a more magical and authentic French adventure, we caught a train to a place a local recommended:...
