LOST ISSUE TEN

Not every journey will be beautiful.Not every morning will be bright.Not every road will be smooth.Not every flower will be pretty.Not every person will be a friend.Not every landscape will be breathtaking.Not every moment will be memorable.Not every question will be answered.Not every book will make sense.Not every wound will heal.Not every sun will rise.Not…

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BALKAN TRAIN SURFING

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…

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OUTSIDE YELLOW LINES

BY ALLIE GAHR I have always felt intensely, reverently drawn to stories like On the Road, Into the Wild, and The Motorcycle Diaries. Of course, this type of fuck-the-consequences, freewheeling, adventure literature almost solely focalizes in and around men. It seemed as though they alone had enough privileges of safety to be able not to care…

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THE STRONG KYRGYZ MEN

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…

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THE JUMP

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.

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