By: Helen Cordery Think of wildlife safaris and you probably conjure up images of binocular-wielding tourists marvelling at long necked oddities from their jeeps. I was like you—I certainly never imagined the cool slopes and granite boulders at the south of the Americas to be a wildlife haven. However, wildlife spotting in the Americas is…
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Cultural Confusion From London to Beijing
By : Talek Nantes Ah… cultural confusion! If you’ve traveled at all, at one time or another you have fallen prey to the little, and sometimes big, misunderstandings that come with immersing yourself in an unfamiliar culture. Sometimes these misunderstandings can be embarrassing like that time in Japan when I graciously, and mistakenly, accepted a…
Ponso No Tao: The Island of the People
By : Laurence Coulton The boat lurched sideways as a wall of water crashed into the hull, huge swells surging upward creating momentary craters of water that threatened to engulf the ferry at any moment. Mortality felt ever more tangible as a dark and angry piece of the Pacific colluded with the storm clouds above…
Summer Essentials for Travels Near and Far
By: Madeline Weinfield Summer is finally here and with it bucket lists of adventures and trips near and far. There is no better time that this season of long days and warm nights to discover something new, whether in your neighborhood or a new country. Wherever summer takes you, here are a few recent finds…
The True Cost of Living Abroad
By: KT Browne In 2014, I was staring at a fish tank in a coffee shop in southern Taiwan—the kind of tank that had been built into the wall—when I got it into my head that I needed to get to Iceland. This “need” felt very much like an urge in the sense that I…
Could This Ancient Remedy Be An Alternative To Treating Addiction?
By : Aeden Smith-Ahearn The news is saturated with stories of drug overdoses and the widespread abuse of prescription narcotics. And as this problem grows, methods for treating addiction continue to evolve and change—hopefully helping us find better ways to target these addiction issues. Addiction is Out of Control Right now, the US is experiencing…
Stepping into the Backcountry of Bariloche, Argentina
By Emily Hopcian On a Wednesday afternoon in March, the rain in Bariloche subsides. As the sun makes its first appearance that week, my best friend Laurel and I fill our backcountry packs with a tent, sleeping bags, sleeping pads and food and head out for a 24-hour adventure in the mountains that run the…
How to Make Healthy Eating Choices While Traveling
By: Holly Klamer Traveling can mean spending long periods of time sitting in the car, an airplane, or at an airport. In all of these cases, access to healthy foods can be challenging. An additional challenge can also be rushing to your next destination (i.e. no time for browsing where the healthiest foods are), an excess…
What REALLY Lies Beneath New York City’s #7 Train
By: Talek Nantes The elevated tracks of New York City’s #7 train runs through some of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods on earth: Jackson Heights, Corona, Flushing. The bustling, noisy streets are lined with storefront signage in dozens of languages and the aromas from countless cuisines waft from the street vendors’ food stalls. Vibrant immigrant…
