by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 25, 2020 | Escapades, Winter 2020
Are you in for a ride? Then coast through history with us and discover some of the oldest amusement parks in the world. 1. Bakken (Dyrehavsbakken) • Klampenborg, Denmark • 1583 Dyrehavsbakken, or Bakken for short, is the world’s oldest operational amusement park....
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Away For A Week, Getaways, Winter 2014
New England is home to many famous authors. Today, many of their residences have become museums or National Historic Landmarks. Why not travel to some of their homes to see where they got their inspiration? Grant Olsen, a freelance writer and literary enthusiast who...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Away For A Weekend, Getaways, Winter 2014
Traditionally, you go to a library to find books. On the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, however, there is a whole lot more to the library than approximately 600,000 volumes and several million original manuscripts. Your trip to Yale University’s...
by Stowaway Magazine | Oct 1, 2011 | Field Notes, Off The Beaten Path
Ever since European monarchs began building elegant garden mazes for entertainment centuries ago, people have loved the thought of getting lost in a maze. Corn mazes, the American spin on this European tradition, are located in every U.S. state excluding Alaska....