by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog, Culture, Fall 2019, Life
In current western society, knowledge is a simple Google search away. If you don’t want to be surprised by traffic, you look it up. When you want to go to the movies, your pick your seats ahead of time. If you aren’t sure your local department store has something...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 27, 2017 | Features, Winter 2017
When someone says the name of a famous place, an image floats to the foreground of the mind—a hazy, incomplete portrait of what makes that place important. Washington, D.C., brings to mind various historical sites and patriotic fervor. Tokyo brings to mind bright...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 22, 2017 | Insider, Travel App, Winter 2017
To an outsider, July 6, 2016, was a very strange day. People flooded the streets around the globe, zombie-like, smartphones held in outstretched hands. These wanderers congregated outside churches and libraries, standing in masses united by one purpose: to “catch ‘em...
by Stowaway Magazine | May 7, 2015 | Culture, Fall 2015, Life
“That is so cute! But there’s no way I could do that because I’m too tall.” Or so Wyoming native Valina Eckley thought when she encountered lolita fashion in the Harajuku district of Tokyo, Japan. Despite her initial assumption, Valina began wearing lolita. During the...
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...
