Tag: adventure
group name: travelcorps
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February 01, 2007 03:29 AM EST --
This being the inaugural “Where the heck are You?” column on Gather Travel Corps, perhaps it would be best to start at the beginning … Awakened by the crash of the breaking dawn, . . . more
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March 18, 2007 04:34 PM EDT --
my Azerbaijan series will return next week.
"Your life will be in danger," my friend Bill had told me the afternoon of my flight to Oaxaca in early December.
His warning was bracing. . . . more
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January 17, 2007 07:20 PM EST --
The drive to Zege and the Monastery Ura Kidane Meret was like a time warp. I had no idea how tribal Ethiopia still was, and after each bend in the road we got deeper and deeper into a tribal culture that . . . more
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February 01, 2007 02:11 AM EST --
Where the Heck are You?
~* ¿What happened to Monday? – part 2 *~
Author’s note: This is the second part of the tale “¿What happened to Monday?” . . . more
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February 05, 2007 11:55 PM EST --
this is the first of a four part series about Azerbaijan
From my travel journal dated June 23, 2003:
Other than the beautiful Georgian castle in the Khaketi and the strange border crossing my busride . . . more
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January 06, 2007 06:22 PM EST --
Good Morning!
Welcome to my world ... :) ... Life on the Road ...
My home for most of the past two years is a 22 foot Dolphin mini-RV on a 1989 Toyota chassis ... My folks ... who have been full-timers . . . more
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February 28, 2007 11:56 PM EST --
this is the second of a four part series about Azerbaijan
part one here.
‘Wow’ is about all I can write currently. This place is pretty special. I wish I could stay here two or three . . . more
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January 16, 2007 08:35 AM EST --
“Why am I short of breath,â€Â I kept asking myself my first few hours in Ethiopia, especially the first . . . more
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February 23, 2007 04:16 AM EST --
Going to Market
Hearing the call of the barkers, the air thick with the scent of the day’s fresh catch, I am swept along by hurrying locals . . . more
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February 01, 2007 07:37 AM EST --
Where the Heck are You?
MrBill, Travel Correspondent
MrBill’s column, “Where the heck are You?”, is published twice monthly to Gather Essentials: Travel “Where . . . more
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July 16, 2008 03:13 AM EDT --
Just had to write up another quick post. You know, life is just strange. Perhaps I am semi-charmed. For years and years all I can remember is that I wanted to live somewhere and learn Chinese. I wanted . . . more
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April 16, 2007 07:51 AM EDT --
I am anxiously waiting in the eerie darkness of the predawn morning; the ancient treasures of the Angkorian era of Khmer Hindu and Buddhist temples will soon come to light as their grandeur . . . more
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February 19, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
Not all people know how they will react when faced with imminent death. Some might respond with heroic courage. Others, with Zen-like tranquility. I burst out crying.
To my credit, I wasn't the . . . more
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May 07, 2007 09:54 AM EDT --
... hidden within ...
From the corner of her eye, she glimpsed a butterfly, then some more. Fluttering on the afternoon breeze they lead the way. Through crumbling walls and tangled . . . more
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September 13, 2007 07:05 AM EDT --
Setting course with but a naked eye on the stars, their ancestors paddled and sailed their wakas, huge war canoes, thousands of miles from southern Asia. Over the centuries they passed through the Indonesian . . . more
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January 08, 2007 10:53 PM EST --
Preparation for a road trip to Baja with our family is akin to moving across country with a horse and wagon. Our family consists of two adults, two children, and one dog. Our Toyota Four Runner . . . more
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July 13, 2007 09:49 PM EDT --
¡Bizi gara! (I'm alive!) Prologue: Stepping out from the quiet of the pension I am at Puerta del Sol,the crossroads of Calle Mayor and Calle Arenal, the center of Madrid. From the . . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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February 05, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
The week after I graduated from kindergarten, my parents packed me and my on a 24-hour plane ride to Bali, Indonesia. We were to spend the next three months there while my aging-hippie father took lessons . . . more
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March 19, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Try traveling to a country where there are virtually no tourists, no tourist attractions and very little alcohol. You may come to realize that traveling, in and of itself, is slightly absurd. Essentially, . . . more
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