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Category / Wanderlust

Euro Train Tripping in the Summer of 1970

At the dawn of the 1970s, it cost around $24 to travel from London to Italy. As the train went clickety-clack, rattling through the ever-evolving landscape, two strangers could strike up a conversation over a few slices of shared bologna ham and make it last for a thousand miles. A new breed of traveler was…

A Wedding Story in Namibia

I‘m not a wedding day dreamer so much as I am a dreamer of finding pretty much any excuse to throw that one and truly memorable party; an occasion that challenges me to squeeze every last drop of imagination I have into creating a story in a unique little place. For Alex and Lisl, their story…

Two Girls, One Trailer and the Great American Road Trip

According to my Google analytics page, approximately 76% of you are reading from the U.S. of A (sorry to make you a statistic there). And from what I’ve gathered, a lot of you dream of coming to Paris. Well, back at ya … to America, that is. This summer, Messy Nessy is coming to America…

5 Places to Disappear

Feel like you’re in need of some space to think about how you’re going achieve all those new year’s resolutions? These five remote locations I’ve chosen would probably give you plenty of thinking room … 1. Palmerston: The Island at the End of the Earth A journalist for the BBC recently did a fascinating travel…

Snaps from Somaliland

There aren’t many of us that would put a place called Somaliland at the top of our lists of places to voyage. Look up Somalia on your government consul’s website and you’ll find some big fat warning signs in red, telling you not to go there, at all, under any circumstances. But Somalia and Somaliland…

Junk Hunting in the Foothills of Missouri

Guest article by The Rucksack Foodie Part of living in the Midwest is having an appreciation for the past, and from that often grows a fondness for pieces of the past as well. Collecting antiques, junk hunting for treasures or in search of curious pieces of the past the best way in Missouri is a…

20 of the Most Charming Little Shopfronts

So many shops seem to look the same these days, but there are those special few that stand out, with shop fronts even more charming than the objects behind them. Here’s one for the window-shoppers… 1. The Key Lime Pie Factory in Key West, Florida Photograph via here / shop website here 2. Hérodote Bookstore in Lyon,…

Here is the Instagram Account of a Photojournalist stationed in North Korea

David Guttenfelder might just be the most interesting person to follow on Instagram. As the Associated Press Chief photographer in Asia, he’s a bit of a regular in North Korea now that the AP has opened a bureau in Pyongyang. “I’ve covered stories where foreign photographers are everywhere. But in North Korea I’m usually the…

Living with the Loch Ness Monster

There may or may not have been a small part of me that just wanted to do this post because the Loch Ness monster and I share the same nickname, but mostly it’s because this photo story just oozes mystery and enchantment … From a young age, Jamie Stocker wanted to be a cryptozoologist; a…

The Green Hippie Beach Bus

Travel notes from Greece I found something neat-o today and thought I’d show you… Hidden in the trees behind an empty beach was this big old abandoned Mercedes bus. It looks like it was a bit of a hippie camping spot back in the day. Inside there’s not much to write home about, it was…

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