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Wisdom Gathered Over Time
It was mid-March, unseasonably warm here in the UK, and I was looking forward to the trip we had painstakingly planned and booked many months before. The route was mapped, the motorhome booked, campsites reserved and even some activities arranged. We had priced and plotted into the small hours and all that remained was to execute a damn fine plan. Things had been increasingly stressful at work, and I was yearning for an adventure. As it transpired, the adventure would be of quite a different sort.
By Hannah Moore2 years ago in Wander
Mexico 2001
Introduction Fiona, a Mexican Guide, and Me In 2001 Fiona organised a two-week trip to Mexico, the first week was the guided tours and the second was spent semi-recovering at an impressive all-inclusive hotel. It was over twenty years ago, and I have forgotten a lot of the place names, but I will use this to share my snaps and tell you some of te tales and things that I remember.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Wander
Standing Still. Top Story - May 2024.
There are very few moments in life where time truly stands still. When your breath is taken from your chest and your body hangs weightless in that moment. Just long enough for it to stay with you from that day onwards. Deep in the red sands of the Australian Outback, I found that moment and clung to it forever.
By Kevin McLaughlin2 years ago in Wander
The Second Visit. Runner-up in Travel Snaps Challenge.
PART III Andrea invited me to visit her again, our "do-over." So much had happened in the two years since I saw her in person. A month after I returned from the Oxford visit, I rushed to my mother's bedside to be with her in her final weeks of life. It was an opportunity to share words, space, love, and companionship with her one last time, one I would have missed had I not chosen to cut my trip short because of the pandemic.
By kp2 years ago in Wander
The Midnight Madness. Content Warning.
Amidst the quiet hum of the small town of Willow Creek, nestled beneath a canopy of ancient trees, there stood a carnival—an ephemeral spectacle that materialized only under the veil of night. Within its labyrinthine confines, where the scent of cotton candy mingled with the faint whispers of the wind, there lay a sinister secret—a ghost train that traversed the darkness, its passengers destined for a journey beyond the realms of the living.
By Dannie2 years ago in Wander
Italy: My Solo Adventure In Florence
Italy had been on my list forever. It was like that crush you can’t help but daydream about. So, last year in May, I finally decided that it was time to turn those daydreams into reality and I booked my first solo trip to Italy. There were going to be a lot of firsts including this one being my first time to a new country altogether by myself. I had already booked my tickets to Milan while I was on a trip to Wales during Easter. So, that meant that I couldn’t back out now. I wasn’t going to anyway because I was too excited to go there!
By Isha Arora2 years ago in Wander
Andersonville, Georgia
I took a journey to see a POW camp in America. I wanted to be an Army soldier. I wanted to be a pilot…an Apache pilot to be specific.
By Alisha Wilkins ✒️🦋🖋️2 years ago in Wander
The First Visit
READ PART II HERE: It was 2020–nearly a year after my trip to China and my first introduction to Andrea. We stayed in contact with each other long after the program ended and had gone our separate ways. We spoke every day and made plans to visit each other. In January, I finally bought my ticket. In February, I left for London again, this time alone. I would hop on a train from there and meet Andrea in Oxford, where she had just started her Master's program. I was to stay with her in the dorms for three weeks and then travel to her home in Norway together and spend a month there.
By kp2 years ago in Wander
" I don't have enough money"
The little island off the coast of the Caribbean known as Haiti, is easily a place where foreigners would call this “The land of purgatory.” An experience that I had the opportunity to embark on at a time when it was considered “safe” to travel there.
By Natasha Collazo2 years ago in Wander
In My Wildest Dreams
If you had told eight-year-old me that one day I'd be living out my dream of travelling to different states and facilities to care for exotic animals, I would've been overwhelmed with a mix of joy and disbelief, thinking it was too good to be true.
By B2 years ago in Wander
The Meeting. Top Story - May 2024.
READ "PART I" HERE: My third adventure outside the United States was to Putian, China (the second was with a college friend to London for Spring Break—a unique choice that I'll write about later). It wasn't exactly a study abroad opportunity, but I was still in college, and a philosophy professor recommended the experience to me. She knew I was interested in Eastern philosophy, focusing on Daoism, and thought a trip to a Buddhist temple in China might be up my alley. She was right.
By kp2 years ago in Wander
The Study Abroad
In 2016, I had never left the country. I was entering my second year at Eastern Michigan University after taking a four-year break from college and had only spent time in the United States on short trips. I was studying international affairs, so studying abroad was required at some point in my academic track. There were a few options, but a class I was taking through the winter semester offered a relatively inexpensive two-week spring trip to Guatemala, and given the content of the class, it seemed like the best fit for me.
By kp2 years ago in Wander