Guest Post by Alex Parrish @saltyvagabonds When we first stepped into this travel lifestyle, most of our days were spent with the boating crowd. It made sense, we were living on the water, and naturally, those were the people around us. But over time, our circles grew. Not because we set out to “find more […]
By Johnny Stanzione Three weeks after I turned nine, my parents and I take a four-day river trip on the wild and scenic stretch of the Rogue River, in southwest Oregon. Wild and scenic rivers are free-flowing (have no dams) and protected for their remarkable scenic value. There was a wildfire in the Kalmiopsis […]
By Asher Heisten I rise quickly from my bed, as I always do, sleep never making me groggy in the morning. The morning sun shoots through the blinds in the room I share with Ronan, making parts of my skin feel hotter. It’s my tenth birthday, and I’m celebrating it in Sydney, Australia. […]
By Ronan Heisten I rub sleep out of my eyes and relinquish the covers that I’d been fighting my brother for all night. The muffled buzz of insects pauses periodically as I splash my face with warm water. My mom and I had decided on an early-morning excursion—rare for us night owls—to round out […]
By Mark Heisten It’s clear from our arrival at the airport in Saigon that Mr. Nguyen is a military man. His stature, handshake, and carriage all suggest a lifelong mastery of mind and body. He looks us directly in our eyes when he speaks; he walks with purpose. And he’s taking us to Ben […]
The A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August, 6 1945 at 8:16am; Sadako Sasaki died on October 25, 1955. It is estimated that more than 10 million cranes are offered each year at the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima.
What a pleasant surprise to find out that we both agreed that you can get away with only packing three pairs of shoes for even an entire year of travel! Here are my fashion-approved (and her practicality-approved) recommendations for the three pairs of shoes to pack for travel.
Alaska is about futures, not pasts. We never talked about jobs or education. Only once did his talk deviate from practical matters and venture into the philosophical. It was when I asked him why he decided to go it alone in the Alaskan wild.
