Travel diaries: Adventures into the unknown

by Allan Eastman

Tickets, Money, Passport Doesn't everybody want to go on an Around The World Trip? Taking this ultimate journey must cross the mind of almost every human being at some point in their life. Go out and see the entire...read more

by Kathryn O'Hehir

"Chasing the Comet's Tail: The Search for Tukten Sherpa" My last day in China, October 30, 2003, a dear friend and teacher, Katleen, took me to the White Pagoda Temple, the oldest Buddhist shrine in Beijing, bu...read more

by James Spiller

Travel Diary: Agra, India Only when we are alone can we find true peace. Only when we forget humanity around us and their stringent rules, when we forget our own preconceived notions of what others should think about us...read more

by Patricia Dexheimer

KENYA, AFRICA Six thousand pounds of fury pounded the earth as a mother elephant trumpeted her rage. Dust filled the air as she charged. Separated from her baby, the mother was on a rampage. Pale faced and shaking, th...read more

by Annalou Mack

Travel in West Africa In 1982, while Peace Corps Volunteers in Liberia, West Africa my husband and I embarked on an eventful trip through several West African countries. For our first leg of the trip we flew to Abidjan,...read more

by Pamela Ryder

The Nav Wench Chronicles The Boat Life 8-11-07 Ahoy friends! We are here sitting on our new (old) sailboat; a 1982 Allmand Tri-Cabin. She is worn around the edges, has a distinct odor emanating from her bilge,...read more

by R.E.D

As far as traveling adventures go I have had my fair share. I got lost in Italy, lost my luggage in Paris, was stung by a jelly fish in Costa Rica, and was chases by sharks in Australia. So this jersey girl's weekend getaw...read more

by Melody Monk

After living several years in Moscow, Russia; our family returned to the States with joy and enthusiasm. As we adjusted to everyday life back in America we also experienced some confusion and embarrassment. The airport ...read more

by Linda Edelstein

It's Only a Mountain. by Linda N. Edelstein When I was 56, I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. This was not a trip I would have organized or planned but, when I was invited to join three other women, I agre...read more

by PC Marks

I grew up in Cleveland Ohio, never traveled any further than approximately 800 miles to Shadydale Georgia for Dad's side of the family's reunion. Mom's was held in Goshen Alabama, maybe a 1000 miles. I was raised in ...read more

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by Max Beaton

December 1973 Dear John Well, old friend, the calendar says that it is December and that Christmas has just gone past. Nothing that has happened since we came to Nigeria has been more disconcerting to us that the Chr...read more

by Kathleen Ann Strach

The spring of 1970 was a welcome sight in Northern Wisconsin. It was April first and I had a bad case of the highway blues. At 17, I was living in Ashland, on the southern tip of Lake Superior, and attending my senior ye...read more

by Anna Slade

It took me 45 hours to get there. The journey was long and really the distance was great, both physically and emotionally. But some ways it felt just like home. Once I finally arrived in Kenya early last June and met u...read more

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by Warren Longwell

Over the years, we had seen the retreat of glaciers in British Columbia and in the Alps. We knew, firsthand, that SOMETHING was melting the ice. And although we were not qualified in the field of thermodynamics, it seemed ...read more

by Jean Axelrod

We certainly ventured into the unknown when we, reluctantly, jumped off the end of a tour boat into a swarming, billowing eruption of giant stingrays. We, and some twenty other slightly panicky tourists, motored out from ...read more

by 'Pomiane'

Molotov Cocktails and Rakia: An evening in Belgrade... "Try not to attend any political rallies whilst in the country, and avoid getting into discussions about Kosovo with people you don't know" was the travel advisory ...read more

by Clare Callow

Travelling the unknown: Europe on 2 Zoloft a day 2005: In my second year of my second major tertiary undertaking, I quite plainly went mad. I swapped jobs, going from a cosy corporate income to what I thought was my ide...read more

by John Graham

A LEARNING EXPERIENCE In retrospect it was a well-planned affair. We had been enjoying the Parisian ambiance at an outside restaurant. The meal had been simple, but excellent, with lots of crusty bread and the right...read more

by Scott Thomas

The shaking had stopped; the shock that comes with nearly being killed by an avalanche seemed to be lifting. But 23-year-old Hai was in terrible pain. And though age, religion, culture and life experience separated us...read more

by William Hackett-Jones

A Year in Russia. The First in a Series of Letters. "Yeah, and don't get involved with the Russian Mafia!" they called. Easier said than done. What started as a quiet sandwich in a cafe (and just the one pint, g...read more