Category: Travel

Gone to Sperryville, VA, Population: 342

Farm-fresh produce stands, artisans, wineries, taverns and hidden-gem natural wonders are along every mile of the route as you drive out of the city and towards the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Jamie Jones brings ‘Paradise in the Park’ to LA’s MacArthur Park

It’s officially summer in California. The drought fighting rain that soaked the hills, trees, and parks we Californians love to call our home on the weekends has ceased, and the festival season is in full swing. One-off Day-time festivals have started to gain momentum in the saturated festivals market as attendees seek more an intimate,…

Thrift Store Chronicles: NYC, Vintage Clothing, and Ray Charles

Thrift-shopping is not just about “popping tags” as Macklemore might have led you to believe in his 2012 hit single “Thrift Shop.” Instead, this activity allows the buyer to treasure hunt instead of merely consume. With no end-goal in mind, individuals are free to roam and peruse shelves of clutter which may themselves be glimpses…

15 First Dates with Europe plus a tiny bit of North Africa

Showing up in a new city is like showing up to a date. Some are blind dates, some are dates with people you’ve spent some time previously getting to know, and sometimes, you don’t even know it’s a date. My name is Ayo and I love metaphors. At the time of writing this, I was…

Notes from the Road: San Blas, Panama

Panama has almost 4 million residents, and more than a third of them live in Panama City, Colón, and David, the country’s three largest cities. The remaining population is concentrated mostly in small towns and villages in central Panama and the Azuero Peeninsula. Officially, roughly 70% of the population is mesitzo, or a mix of Amerindians and…

Notes from the Road: Dili, Timor-Leste

At the start of my 14-week venture abroad, I received some critical advice from a globetrotting Confidant, “Find the small things that you like and focus on them. Trying to take the whole experience on at once can be overwhelming.” Though I’ve been told this many times, even during moments of daily life in the…

Meet Leon Lucas: Singpore’s Mad Thrills DJ A.K.A Inquisitive

This mad thrills Singapore-based DJ and producer has proven his chops on the dance music scene way before electronic dance music went mainstream. After several hours of flight time and a yet-to-hit jet-lag (following my time in Jordan) I made it to Singapore for a 24-hour stopover, stoked to get some work in for the…

Capturing the Essence of Ireland

“In seeing the essence of the country, I more clearly saw the essence of myself.” This was the last thing I wrote in my notes on the bus ride from the AVIS car rental to the airport on the last day of traveling through Ireland. It’s not exactly what I would have expected my final…

48 hours in Paris, France

I stopped in Paris, France for a few days on my way back to the states from Italy. I absolutely love Paris! The beauty and atmosphere of the city is unmatchable. I spent my first full day exploring and window shopping. It is more expensive than Italy, and on a student budget, I could not…

Summer Abroad: Rome, Italy

I had the amazing opportunity to intern in Rome, Italy this summer with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As a graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, I was able to apply to the Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Internship Program (ANRP) and…