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 | Culture, Eats, Summer 2013
For westerners who consider an eight-ounce bloody slab of cow muscle to be mouth-wateringly delicious, a crispy fried grasshopper or mealworm should pose no problem. But let’s face it, it does. And the whole “facing it” issue may be the problem. If our food has eyes...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
The word safari probably makes you think of people wearing khaki, bumping along in a jeep, and peering through tall savannah grass at a majestic lion. But did you know that there are other exciting ways to enjoy an African safari? Here are four ways to get a different...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Photo Contest, Spring 2012
First Place Three Orphans Photo by Stephanie JarstadFederal Way, Washington This image was captured in Kibera, Kenya, at an orphanage called Siloam. I volunteered as a schoolteacher and an orphanage worker for a summer. Four hundred students who cannot afford to go...
