Here is the second in a three-part series exploring alternatives to traveling on planes. Photo credit: Boccaccio1 What Go Girl doesn’t love traveling overland, getting up close and personal with the…
Returning Home: Reverse Culture Shock
Returning from Peace Corps service left Samantha split between two cultures: American and Moldovan. Image from cabincrewdreamer.blogspot.com. I totally underestimated what it would feel like to move back to a…
18 Reasons Why You Should Road Trip Across America; or, My Love Affair With the Pacific Ocean
May was never a month for romance, but New York was beginning to heat for the summer, so we got in our car and made for the west. An internship…
Florida to Massachusetts, Take One
Samantha’s road trip brought her up the East Coast to her new home of Massachusetts. Image from panoramio.com. Thirty hours on the road and 16 states later, I have hauled…
Thank you, Mr. Policeman or “the license to carry a bin”
Dealing with the police in Tanzania is totally different than in Europe or the United States. In fact, it’s the same all over Africa. The famous expression “TIA – this…
Escaping City Boundaries
Lying back in the sun, eyes closed with the breeze from the lake cooling me and listening to the band of crickets and cicadas, it’s hard to believe that I’m…
Wishlists
I’m sure that 90% of people reading this are the same as me and that somewhere hidden safely away (so as not to be a constant reminder, but equally a…
Driving in the East of the USA
My first major road trip was when I was seven. And really, it wasn’t a trip as I never did make it back to the starting point. When my family…
Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
I’m driving from my mom’s house in Hanover, NH to my alma mater, Wellesley College, in Massachusetts after a pretty intense Thanksgiving road trip. The descent to North Carolina begins…again….
We Are Travelers
I gotta hand it to him: my boyfriend hates mornings, and he sleeps in every second he can (well into the afternoon, sometimes), but if he has to get up…
Silver Week – Part I
Day 1: Ellie & I depart Shimokita at approximately 7pm on Friday night, after work. We spend most of the evening winding our way down to the Tohoku Expressway which…
Adventures in Aomori
Playing outside is one of my necessities in life. I enjoy it for all the physical aspects – the knowledge that yes, my body is capable and strong; for the…
Castles and Cars
If I had to give a single piece of advice to travelers, it might be “Make friends with people who own cars.” Obviously, when meeting new people, it’s probably not…
Drive Me Crazy
by Lisa My brother-in-law is a car guy. You know, he reads magazines about cars, fixes up cars, goes to car shows, owns a pretty 2010 Camaro, wants to drive in…
Modern Day Covered Wagon
When I told folks that a week after graduation my plans included a two-week cross-country road trip with my boyfriend and his younger brother, ‘they’ told me I was crazy; …