humanity
If nothing else, travel opens your eyes to the colorful quilt that is humankind.
Meet Rui - Walking The Camino de Santiago Medieval Style
Meet Rui who is walking the Camino de Santiago – medieval style. I recently moved onto the Portuguese Camino de Santiago in the Rio Minho area. I love it! I spend my days wandering the countryside, sometimes on the Camino, sometimes off. It’s an absolute pleasure and blessing to live in the area and to meet Pilgrims on the way to Santiago.
By Samantha Wilson6 years ago in Wander
On Hermit Crabs
Honestly, I totally relate to hermit crabs. I mean, those little guys are always on the move, finding homes in seashells and tin cans whenever they outgrow the last one. I mean, I’ve never lived in a shell, but I have gone through the same thing; I’ve moved to three different cities in my adult life. The first time, I outgrew my hometown and went after my education. Then, I outgrew that home, and left in search of personal growth. The third time, my education came after me, so here I am. I’m right there with the hermit crabs.
By Gabrielle LaFontaine6 years ago in Wander
Traveling With My Best Friend: Scared as Hell
The best thing I have done while being twenty has been going to South Africa with my best friend for my birthday month. The scariest thing I have ever done in my teens was plan A Trip to South Africa with my best friend, both young 19& 20 year old women.
By Vuno Kimmey Phiri6 years ago in Wander
The Inaugural Journey Westward with @CatBusAdventures
February 4, 2020 I drag myself out of bed at three am. I can't sleep. After struggling to peel myself out of my sleeping bag, I tug my freezing cold overalls back on. I slip my boots on my already-cooling toes, my breath visible as I make my way staggering up to the front of the parked bus. I force the door open and race across the street to the truck stop we're stopped outside of for the night. We are near Provo, UT, midway home in our new (twenty year-old) school bus, which we plan to convert into a mobile home.
By Sarjé Haynes6 years ago in Wander
A Lonesome Snow Walk
This past holiday season, my job as a professional actor took me to the picturesque Sun Valley, Idaho. I was to appear in a stage play, a production of the recently published holiday hit, Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley. You know, the old Austen-ian story of high-class British folks running around a mansion - being in love, falling in love, and fighting off love. Feminist-forward, family-friendly fare. A perfect holiday story for this small, yet affluent mountain town. Though the process of building and performing this play was a fun one, it forced me to travel many hours from my home - away from my family, my people, my comforts. Additionally: on a "snow day" I couldn't travel more than a half-mile from my lodging, it was 12 degrees or below most nights, and I was housed in the childhood home of the famous(ly antisemitic) poet, Ezra Pound, which is currently inhabited by at least one ghost (who visited me my third night there, glowing and screaming at me at the foot of the bed, like a menacing and luminescent banshee). All these factors combined made for a bittersweet gumbo of isolation and cabin fever at times. Drinking to calm the nerves was a must most nights, if I'm being real honest.
By Orion Bradshaw6 years ago in Wander
Costa Rica Rural Life
A native of Gary, Indiana, a working class community. Working long hours, attending various community meetings and a single father, it’s not uncommon that on my way hone, I contemplate what I want to stop and pickup at one of the fast food drive throughs. This is the basic way of life here.
By Patricia Stone6 years ago in Wander
Wonderlust
What happens when you look at the map?... you start realizing all the places you haven't been to, all the places you haven't seen, all the people you haven't met, all the pictures you haven't taken. Well that is exactly what I think anyways... Every time I take a look at a map or a globe my mind starts to wonder, it wonders what i would do in each place I set my eyes on, what kind of food they would have, what do their streets smell like??
By Must Love Dogs 6 years ago in Wander
BULGARIAN TOWN MEZDRA, A MOSAIC OF OLD AND NEW MEMORIES
BULGARIAN TOWN MEZDRA, A MOZAIC OF OLD AND NEW MEMORIES Today, I have been taken on a mental trip to my homeland, Bulgaria, from the distant Australian shores. It’s not enough to say that this trip is like a blood-camping and a spiritual journey to my country, whose smells and sights still brings me to tears.
By Gabriela Dimitrova 6 years ago in Wander
A Spiritual Journey
What you are about to read may help you begin seeing the synchronicities that occur in your life on a daily basis. After travelling around with no direction, a few months after the death of my dear Mother, I noticed so many signs that she was still with me that I could not deny that everything I have thought about religion was true. Whicht is that they all speak a little of the truth, but there is a connection to them all which stems back much further than most people can imagine. This trip confirmed my spirituality and the truth that we are here for a reason.
By Gavin Grant6 years ago in Wander
