Traveling Through Life: How Education Lead to Service-Young Writers Scholarship
When I was at the University of California I was always envisioned myself leaving the comfort of my country to volunteer abroad. A travel study abroad program in Carribbean and South...
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World Challenge: Madagascar
Personally, I have always wondered if the World Challenge Expeditions people slipped us hallucinogenic drugs along with the spectacular PowerPoint presentation...
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Our Time in Canada
Around the start of August 2009, I had my girlfriend from England over at my home. We had planned on making a trip to Toronto in order to take a tour of Nelvana Studio, a well-known Canadian animation...
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My Term with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps NCCC
Renia Hutson
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Young Travelers Writers Scholarship
It was the time of my life after I came back from the Bahamas just last October. It was even more fun because we left on Halloween. There was...
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My Year with Americorps National Civilian Community Corps NCCC
How I got started on my epic adventure was by the humblest of means. I was furious with the educational systems in Michigan, in America! Since I am a resident of Detroit, Michigan, I will primarily...
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Two Weeks in Impoverished Paradise
Twenty-six hours of travelling. I went from the familiar airport in Cincinnati to the massive international intersection that is the Detroit airport to the...
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Europe
In the summer of my junior year of high school, the Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra went on a two-week tour of Europe, performing five concerts total. I was a violinist in the orchestra, and though...
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Spring Break 2010
During my spring break of 2010, I traveled with the travel club to Paris and Barcelona. From Paris we took a night train to Barcelona, Spain. The train cart/ room was very small. There were four of...
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Putting the Camera Down
I’ve never liked the label of “tourist” or any of the stereotypical actions that go along with it. I especially hate the tradition of taking a meticulously posed picture in front of...
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Trip to Portugal
Growing up in the United States, we are used to many things. From drinking cold milk and pulling butter out of the refrigerator to buying bread at local grocery stores, these are things we have become...
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The Best Travel
The destination that I love most is a quiet place in Wisconsin called Door County. We first started going there when I was a young child...
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Terremoto’s Impact
I was a sophomore in high school, traveling with my youth group to Aguas Calientes, Mexico with an organization called Terremoto. It was my first mission’s trip and there was...
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The Most Amazing Place In the US
I have traveled across most of the United States and have had the chance to see many of the spectacular sights that it has to offer. I am the passenger on my boyfriend's truck that travels from coast...
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Beachside Serenity in San Simeon, California
There is a place on earth which one is sure must only exist in fairy tales. Complete with a castle and many fabled stories of what happened behind its gates, it is truly a remarkable location. ...
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Jag Heter Selena, Vod Heter Du?
July-August of 2009: After a tiring, sixteen hour long flight, during which I got to feed my ginger ale addiction, I arrived in Arlanda airport close to the city Stockholm, Sweden; the...
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Train Tales
If a person never took the time to appreciate their life, then a New York City cab driver will change that in an instant. Before my friend and I could even securely fasten our seatbelts,...
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Medicine, Philanthropy, Perseverance, and Beauty
Traveling is exciting, regardless of where you're destined. And doing it solo is even better. Lost in the clouds, disconnected from the mayhem on the ground,...
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Berlin
During my time in Europe I have been blessed with a wealth of incredible experiences. There has been no city that I have visited that has made me more aware of this - or more grateful -...
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Backyard Adventures: The Austin, TX Edition
Oh, the plight of the postbaccalaureate student! My undergraduate loans and future law school loans have made sure that my travel fund stays at a pitiful $0. ...
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Finding joy in simplicity: My stay in the Kedougou region of Senegal
My name is Emilia Spalding, and for the spring of 2010 I am studying abroad in Senegal, West Africa. I am studying with SIT Study Abroad, (www.sit.edu/studyabroad)...
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No Yellow Cab
Although I haven’t been to many places in the world, out off my twenty years of existence, I would say that the best one on my list is visiting New York City. While planning on transferring to...
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A disaster of the best sort
When you first walk into the building of Ramos MejÃa, home of the social sciences for the Universidad...
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Southbound Train Leaving Beijing
48 hours in a sleeper car is a very. long. time.I’m on a two-day long train ride headed south from Beijing to Yunnan Province. It’s a huge trip, two weeks in Southern China...
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My trip to Morelia, Mexico
I woke up with the warmth of the morning sun on my face, yet my feet were cold due to the fresh, morning breeze. Then what do I hear next? Fluttering noises and a squawk of a rooster,...
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Spring Break on Greek Islands
I boarded the ferry with my three best friends; our anticipation was not lessened due to the early hour of the morning. We were ready for a Spring Break adventure!
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Chinese (updated)
A shy junior boy silently slips into room 206, staring at the floor, avoiding others’ gazes as he does. He is immediately taken aback by the state of the room. As if occupied by feuding siblings,...
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The World is Our Playground
After a grueling four hour study session of organic chemistry and molecular biology my roommate and I decided to take a three month backpacking trip from Greece to Ireland. Each place is remembered...
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Peace Found in Galveston
In December 2007, my fiance and I travelled to Galveston, Texas. It was a fourteen hour Greyhound bus trip each way, but it was well worth it. In the bus stations, there were amazing...
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Lloviendo en Malaga
On the only day I spent in Málaga, it rained. I sat with a tiny Spanish girl and a loud, crass Spanish boy on the bus ride, as grey drizzle...
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My Trip to Greece
Greece is one of the few places on earth that can boast a history of over 5,000 years. No other place has contributed so much...
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The SmithSonian trip-My Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience
It's not everyday that I actually take a wonderful opportunity to undertake something that is both unforgettable and amazing at the same time. One instance I would mention as...
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Oh, The Places I’ve Gone!
If I had the privilege to live life as a cartoon character, I would be Carmen Sandiego. I enjoy to travel and one day hope to see...
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Bonjour France!
Have you ever had an experience that you will remember for a life time? Have you ever gone somewhere that affected you greatly and had the best time of you life? Well I have. I went on a trip last summer...
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By the Starlight
I came into the dining car to eat my half cold, half microwaved turkey and swiss hoagie. I had...
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La Vie A Grand-Fougeray
We started losing speed. My eardrums told me we were getting lower. Oh, how I longed to be at a window seat to see outside when the wheels hit the ground of the country I would call home for the ten...
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From Textbook to Travel Experience
It's amazing how real history is when you get to see where it happened. Yeah, reading about it is exciting, or maybe boring depending on how much you care, but once you lay your eyes on a place ...
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Beirut
A few weeks back, I travelled to Beirut, Lebanon. I feel it’s important to capture what I experienced in the few days I spent in the country. As my buddy and I walked ourselves out of the airport,...
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7 500′ to 34 000′ – The Perspective
Looking down through the haze of 34 000', I squinted at the little town of Tweed. Not as though anyone else looking out the Boeing 737 porthole windows knew this, since Tweed likely has only 12 000...
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Top 10 Spring Skiing And Snowboarding Resorts
When the snow starts melting in your hometown, ski resorts begin to rock with sun tans, bikini tops and soft, fluffy runs. For many, spring is the best time to ski. Crisp snow softens into glistening mid-morning...
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The Powwow Trail
I think of my life being a path of incredible movement. If it weren't for the spectacular dance and constant interactions between subatomic particles traveling at some velocity on a path, I wouldn't...
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Germany
Leipzig and Berlin, Germany The summer before my senior year, I traveled to Leipzig and Berlin, Germany. On this trip, I would be able to minister to people through music because I was traveling...
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They Blessed Me in Mexico
Tijuana, Mexico is an awful place. Driving through this city for the third time, for my third mission trip, doesn't make it any easier to see. The houses I see from the major highway are made of multicolored...
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