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Hitchhiking in Croatia
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Most Cars Don’t Come Back: A Final Trip to Croatia

  The airports in Germany won't allow you to take rented vehicles into eastern Europe.  This puzzled my parents and I, because in two weeks we were about to take a road trip to Croatia. We...

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The Other Side of Jamaica

A perfect picture: a palm tree on a deserted beach, a starlit sky, the sound of the waves crashing against the shore. I dig my toes into the sand trying to take in every inch, every sound, and every scent...

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Niagara Falls

A family of three is going for a boat ride down the Niagara River. They are enjoying themselves when suddenly an unthinkable thing happens. The motor on their boat quits working. Normally this would not...

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If Thoreau Went Backpacking

The second night was much like the first. I stripped off my pack, this time remembering to clear an area, and I even had time to cook dinner before crawling into my mobile grave. I felt a short-lived...

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Costa Rica

It was Costa Rica, a vision of crowded, colorful houses and flat tin roofs caked in flaky, thick rust, and hillocks of kaleidoscopic litter cascading down the dirty streets. It was the sun, the blistering...

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My Jamaican Heart

On February 21, 2008, I boarded a plane for Montego Bay, Jamaica, excited for what God had in story for me. Little did I know that I would leave part of my heart in Jamaica. During the eleven days that...

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Girls Trip: Massanutten, VA

Girls Week Out. No dads allowed, no boys, just females in all our high-maitenance glory. One week at a ski resort in Virginia: five girls in four rooms, two stories, two kitchens,...

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Southern Africa

During months of anticipation, I knew Africa would be life-changing...

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7,000 Miles Away But Right Next Door: My Trip to Beijing

Orange, blue, red, yellow signs touting the taxi cabs, the restaurants, the money changing stations lined the airport terminal. The air, an acrid, foreign aroma filling my lungs, left me with an indecipherable...

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