Travel Articles

No, I won’t go to Vegas

an unedited letter of danger and adventure by Florian Bernhart, Tübingen Germany I was stucking in the middle of nowhere yesterday and I’m totally done. There was nothing in the night except me and my echoes when I screamed for help surrounded by snakes and mountain lions for which you usually need a gun there [...]

Why Why Wyoming

by Mandy Wiebe This photo was taken in the mountains of Wyoming. It had just rained and the retreating storm clouds were reflecting in the little reservoir. Everything around me and in me was filled with tension; emotionally, physically, naturally. But, I looked out onto the water and I saw the reflection of the sky- [...]

Thai Whiskey: SangSom gets me lifted!

by Anthony Brunello Like many travelers to south East Asia, I was first introduced to SangSom on Koh San Road in Bangkok, before I was to be shipped out to the ‘dive scene’ of Koh Tao.  My wife and I were hanging with a local from Bangkok, Trang a jovial young Thai who was the [...]

El encuentro

poesia por Sarah Kulla La Bruja La vimos sentada al lado del camino pidiendo limosna sus nalgas torcidas sobre la tierra :: :: Gracias Por fin me dijiste lo quería oír: que a la mejor esa noche iba sentirme lejos de mis seres queridos que iba a chillar, llorar, vomitar e irme muy lejos de [...]

Time Travel Series: #3 of 3

by Caroline McCarty The third installment of a series of then and now photos, the “then” photographs, were taken between 1935-1944 by employees of the U.S. governement for the Farm Security Administration to document rural poverty in order to better educate the public and find methods of improvement. The “now” photographs were taken by Caroline [...]

Island Bar Ice Gyre

photo by Russ Henderson with thanks to Steve Armstrong & friends Russ Henderson took this picture up the main Salmon River between Riggins and French Creek on February 8, 2010. Russ is working on a road project up there.  The circle is turning clockwise from the current flowing downstream from the right.  By the next [...]