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Namibia Road Trip Part III: Beauty and the Beasts
That afternoon, I made my way to the Brandberg White Lady lodge, a nice little place with great views, swimming pools, and bunny rabbits. I climbed the hill behind the lodge for a nice view of the sunset, and then drove to the campsite, where I asked a nice older couple across the way to help me put up my tent.
Jenifer NimPublished 9 days ago in WanderAthens – Feeling Down Before Walking Up
In the 1990s, I was a “backpacker”. In 2022, I was a “digital nomad”. Same thing, but our culture always finds a way to rename old things to make them sound new and fresh again.
Scott ChristensonPublished 10 days ago in WanderA Day In Preston: Revisiting My Past Part One
Introduction On the 22nd of May 2024, I finally got myself in gear to go back to visit my hometown (hence the Springsteen video) of Preston and treat my sister to a birthday meal which should have happened in August 2023, but you can read about that here:
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 10 days ago in WanderRemember
The air hangs hot and humid, reaching nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Sweat trickles beneath your clothing as you move along the pathways. Whispers of long silenced echoes lift in the occasional breeze, surrounding you with an eerie sense of something other worldly, foreboding and long lost. Dust particles stir to settle in your lungs with each breath and step you take beneath the intertwined tree limbs hanging just overhead; they provide relief - momentary shelter from the sun’s rays. Each movement, each stir of dust leads you one step closer to whatever beckons. Not knowing exactly what you will find ahead, you still obey the summons. It's that for which you traveled one hundred miles inland.
Cindy CalderPublished 10 days ago in WanderTravel With Three of My Children
We went to North Carolina. I didn't want to have a 70th birthday party, so the kids suggested a trip together for my birthday. I loved the idea and thought our trip was the greatest! The best trip I had ever taken.
Denise E LindquistPublished 10 days ago in WanderPushing the Bus In Kenyan Highlands
Africa holds my heart, and I cannot get enough of it. I was planning another trip for 2017, and friends wanted to come. Our third time in East Africa would be their first safari and voyage there. I selected a tour in Kenya that included two rescue places in Nairobi for October of that year.
Andrea CorwinPublished 10 days ago in WanderA crazy rant about a different kind of trip.
What's my best trip? Is it what I'm supposed to believe the best trip is? What they’ve told me the best trip is. An afternoon at the lake, a road trip across America with the family stuffed in the car, a journey to discover myself. Backpacking across Europe, polaroid pictures of smiling faces. Because that's what we're supposed to believe the best trips are, right? But, what if I told you that was wrong? That, that was all wrong. Because those are nice, but those are not the best trips; those are vacations.
The Invisible WriterPublished 10 days ago in WanderAn English Fairy Tale
I watch the tiny bubbles of my champagne race to the top of the delicate glass, the effervescence hypnotizing. I am perched on a stool in a First Class Lounge at the Seattle airport, surrounded by stiff businessman and wealthy middle aged ladies, only minutes away from boarding. I feel drastically out of place, with my oversize Top Gun sweatshirt and unwashed hair, and am reminded of Cinderella. Surely she must have experienced imposter syndrome at such a fancy ball surrounded by the rich and entitled, yet somehow she managed to pull it off. I catch a lady clad almost entirely in Chanel eyeing the holes in my sweatpants.
Marti MaleyPublished 10 days ago in WanderPattaya on the Gulf of Thailand
In the 1960s Pattaya was a quiet fishing village. Today it has changed drastically and has become a popular tourist destination with many resort hotels, high-rise condos, and many beautiful beaches.
Rasma RaistersPublished 10 days ago in WanderBeautiful Hungary
The Danube River flows from north to south, passing through the capital Budapest, and splitting the city in two. Danube Bend is one of the country's most popular recreational and excursion spots. Here the river winds through the heavily wooded Visegrad Mountains. It is an area for hikers and nature lovers. You can get a cruise on the Danube and travel to neighboring Austria.
Rasma RaistersPublished 10 days ago in WanderMysterious Salem and Beautiful Cape Ann
You’ll find the city of Salem on the north coast of Massachusetts above the capital of the state Boston. Salem is mysterious because it is famous for its 1692 witch trials during which time some locals were executed for supposedly practicing witchcraft.
Rasma RaistersPublished 10 days ago in WanderRainy Days, Mondays, and the Best Brussels Experience
I traveled to Europe for the first time in the first week of December 2019 and stayed for about ten days. The first week was dedicated to professional work as a media person for a youth leadership conference (which you can read right here). This is important for context, because I never would have had the opportunity to travel to Europe without my writing.
Karina ThyraPublished 10 days ago in Wander