by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2014 | Away For A Week, Getaways, Summer 2014
As you sit in the back of a rickety taxi, winding higher and higher through the northern Andes and away from civilization, you may nervously wonder if you should have picked a more generic vacation spot. Rest assured. You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 1, 2014 | Away For A Weekend, Getaways, Recent Articles, Spring 2014
Need a fresh idea for weekend activities during your Chilean study abroad? Bored on your business venture? Wishing for one more week of good skiing? Portillo’s got you covered. The ski season of 2005 was coming to a close. Although Larry Kacher was usually...
by Stowaway Magazine | Oct 9, 2013 | Arts, Culture, Fall 2013
Underneath the glistening sun and crashing waves of Cancún, Mexico, lies a hidden treasure—an underwater sculpture museum in Manchones Reef. The sculptures, created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor for the Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA), is a collection of...
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 | Jul 1, 2013 | Field Notes, Service, Summer 2013
Ruth was kidnapped when she was nine years old. She had been poor—an orphan child who had spent much of her life scavenging for food in the littered streets of Cusco, Peru. Yet she longed for that life after she was towed five hundred miles away to a brothel outside...
