by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 2, 2016 | Features, Spring 2016
A place can tell a million stories. A building, the landscape, the ground beneath your feet seem to absorb all of the emotion—the pain, the anger, the suffering—of the past. Sometimes if you just stand still and try to listen to the voices of history, you’ll hear them...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 9, 2016 | Getaways, Winter 2016
We’d had good weather the previous two days, high clouds with frequent blue sky and sun peaking through, but then we drove south on Highway 101 from Newport, Oregon, that afternoon of the third day. Our luck ran out and we got the normal spring conditions, low clouds...
by Stowaway Magazine | Aug 29, 2012 | Fall 2012, Online Exclusives
It’s 1946, and you are in the icy waters of the Davis Straits off of Greenland. You are a sailor in the middle of Operation Frostbite, and this is your first deployment. Your task is to make sure the machinery in the engine room keeps functioning, despite the freezing...
by Stowaway Magazine | Aug 29, 2012 | Fall 2012, Field Notes, Profile
For a guy like Stan Ellsworth, motorcycles rather than cars are clearly the way to travel. “In a car, you’re locked away,” he says. “You have your own environment in there; you’ve got your stereo, your air-conditioning, etc. You just took your environment out of your...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jun 7, 2012 | Culture, Eats, Summer 2012
Many Japanese foods that are popular today both in Japan and throughout the world didn’t actually originate in Japan. Gyoza (potstickers) and yakisoba (similar to Chinese chow mein) both originated in China. And tonkatsu (Japanese pork cutlet) is a Western dish...
