by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 9, 2016 | Field Notes, Tales From The Trip, Winter 2016
A Ticky Situation Have you ever been so tired from a trip that when you say “thank you” in Spanish, you realize you’re actually in France? Or get yelled at by Patrick Stewart when he’s on stage? Traveling through Europe, my mom and I found that too many things went...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 27, 2015 | Spring 2015, Tales From The Trip
The Mountain and the Suitcase Growing up in Texas doesn’t give you a lot of experience with hiking enormous mountains, but my brother Jeremy and I were excited to hike Utah’s Mount Timpanogos (11,752 feet) one night in mid-October 2007. Hiking with us was a guy named...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 16, 2014 | Field Notes, Insights, Tales From The Trip, Winter 2015
Rejuvenation “You don’t have to do it!” my mother yelled to me. I stared down at the blue water tugging my ankles toward the cliff, which at that point became a stunning thirty-foot waterfall. A chill vibrated through my entire body, but it wasn’t caused by the cold...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 5, 2014 | Fall 2013, Field Notes, Tales From The Trip
Lost in Tokyo Only my sheer terror could distract me from the excruciating pain I was experiencing. I was only six years old, was alone on a train, and was hardly able to breathe because I was surrounded by strangers. And my fingers were stuck in the train door—the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Nov 6, 2012 | Fall 2012, Field Notes, Online Exclusives, Tales From The Trip
Read four travel tales from our talented Stowaway contest winners. The Ever-Eccentric Matt I should have known that who you take to an amusement park can make or break your day. I learned this lesson when three friends and I went to Walt Disney World in Orlando,...
