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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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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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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Is there more to life outside of the corporate world? How do people in Asia live, and are they truly happy? These questions were what compelled Hoai Anh to leave Germany and relocate to Asia as a digital nomad. There, she returns to her roots, rediscovers herself and confronts her own worth as a person…
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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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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…
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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.
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There is a mountain in all of us. They come in the form of internal obstacles that challenge us every single day. How can we use travel to help us overcome them?
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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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“非以伪饰的话填满静默，非以虚无的途指路。”
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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.
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