MOMENTS

BY AARON GILBREATH On my family’s first overseas vacation, our seven-year-old daughter Vivian encountered Costa Rica’s enormous iguanas, cute howler monkeys, and iconic colorful birds, but the giant red-winged grasshopper stole her heart. Urbanites like us often struggle to love insects, especially ones with five-inch bodies and red eyes, but Vivian’s affection for Tropidacris cristata…

BY HOLGER HOFFMANN & SYLVIA FURRER It does not take long to get used to the relaxed lifestyle of the Hoti and Penare. No one works more than two hours a day. Much is done playfully, such as fishing. The Hoti and Penare are two Indian tribes that live on a tributary of the Orinoco…

BY MAX HUDGINS “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” I heard as I felt someone kick my foot. It was 3 AM on the border of the Czech Republic and Hungary. I had been sleeping on the floor of the train station waiting for my next train to take me to Budapest. Everything was planned out. I was…

BY BRIENNA CARTER Allegedly, people from all over Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan attend the Victory Day festivities in Borbash. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I can confirm that there were at least a couple thousand people there. Just the day before, the only people on the streets were some kids and their farm…

BY MAX HUDGINS I thought the best thing that could prepare me for a trip to Africa was spending sixteen years of my life growing up in Panama. I was wrong. The best preparation for Africa is, in fact, the flight over. Sick, tired, and essentially traveling Panama for the last two weeks was my…

Riding to the furthest reaches of the Indian subcontinent, A. A. Kostas and Emma make a trip to Khonoma, the famed ‘green village’ of Nagaland. There, they discover a village committed to environmental protection, but also learn about its darker tragic history.

When Max Hudgins missed his stop in Trebinje and somehow ended up in Mostar, he saw a man in a Speedo make the 79-foot drop from the hump of Stari Most (or Old Bridge) into the cold Neretva. Then and there, he decided he would only leave town after he had made that jump.

“非以伪饰的话填满静默，非以虚无的途指路。”

Travelling as a couple is always a hard stress test on relationships. After almost 50 years of travelling together, Holger Hoffmann and Sylvia Furrer have developed a few survival strategies to maintain a healthy relationship while backpacking to remote areas as a couple.