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Town Lake - Dolyna, Ukraine (VIDEO)
The first video is up. There's not much to do in Dolyna. It is a small town with lots of ...
Getting Out of Barthalonaaa! Part 5
We step onto a platform. Not a train station, but an empty wooden platform. The only sign of human life ...
Getting Out of Barthalonaaa! Part 4
Day two in Barcelona I give in and buy what I hope will be a Alka-Seltzer-like, miracle, Spanish cold medicine. ...
Getting Out of Barthalonaaa! Part 3
I am dead asleep when I hear Leslie’s alarm go off. She crawls out of bed with her phone. I ...
Getting Out of Barthalonaaa! Part 2
I want to lie down and die right here in front of the plastic seats filled with weary travelers in ...
Getting Out of Barthalonaaa! Part 1
Leslie and I walk back to our hostel the first night in Nice. “I think I’m getting sick,” I say. ...
Two Weeks, Ten Countries: a backpacker's itinerary
Just over two weeks spent traveling through ten European countries. It was completely worth every minute spent planning the trip ...
Getting Around and Out of London
Don't forget to leave London too! Recommended day trips: Brighton (by rail), Cambridge, Oxford (by the Oxford Tube bus), Windsor ...
A Bit of Song and Dance: How to Entertain Yourself in the UK
First step: get on the e-newsletter of TimeOut London. And if you regularly check their website for popular events and ...
New York City Tonight
The first stage of my traveling plans this summer is about to begin in 2 hours when my friend drops ...
Discover. In every sense of the word.
Discovered a new part of Prague this weekend. Well, new to me anyway. This place wasn’t full of historic ...
Earth Day Musings
The end of my full year in Prague is fast approaching. There’s tons that I’ve learned, experienced seen, and ...
How to write about meat if you are vegetarian
Today I want to write about Torres Novas because I am writing an article about the 24? edition of the ...
Escalators, doggy hitching posts, and doors that close really, really fast.
Lausanne, Switzerland. End of day 3. (I think) Before I left the US for this study abroad trip, everyone told ...
No peanut butter, cheddar cheese, or deli meat!
Grocery shopping in Switzerland is definitely a task. First of all- the prices are outrageous. I bought a small package ...
Down Days
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Cole Anyone who has ever made a snowboarding trip or any outdoor based ...
The Sign Curve of Life
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Cole Nothing is ever as bad as it seems and if it is ...
Back To Civilization
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Cole As exciting as it is to travel the world, there is no ...
Holy Gulmarg
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Cole To say my arrival in India was a “Cultural Experience” is like ...
China--The Melting Pot of the World?
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Cole With over 56 different ethnicities spanning China’s 34 provinces, it is no ...
Japan Uncovered
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Cole The last couple of days have been packed with Japanese sights and ...
Penke Panke Lodge
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Cole What an awesome day for Ride Our World. The Penke Panke lodge where ...
Murphy's Law
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Cole “Anything that can go wrong WILL GO WRONG!” That is the easiest ...
Six Countries in Six Photos (and a Bonus Video)
My passport received a great deal of ink over the past five weeks. As I mentioned in my last entry, ...
Re-Planning
Sadly, I will be postponing my study abroad experience a semester. I had planned to work this summer and then ...
An Earthquake Is Not A Carnival Ride
by Jes Stayton, Greenheart Travel’s high school abroad participant It’s interesting that I didn’t really think about earthquakes ...
Pura Vida – Easier Said than Done
by Hannah Nevitt, Greenheart Travel volunteer abroad participant Every day, multiple times, I remind myself to have patience…the patience to ...
Swine Flu Changes Everything
November marks my last month with SIT in Mongolia and this month is devoted almost entirely to conducting free-roaming research ...
“Learn, Serve and Share in Harmony with Nature” in Costa Rica
by Hannah Nevitt, Greenheart Travel Volunteer Abroad Participant Every morning I awake to the sounds of crowing roosters, chirping birds, ...
Japanese Cuisine is More Than Just Raw Fish
by Jes Stayton, Greenheart Travel high school abroad participant The one thing that is completely different between Japan and ...
Stuck: A Story from Life on the Black List
SETTING: SERBIA CHARACTERS: A MAN & A WOMAN, a husband and wife THE AMERICAN, their barely there ...
Wanderlust for the Rest of the World
"We can't get out." There is a desperation in Maya's voice that I haven't heard before. Maya is twenty-one, a ...
Livin' the Pura Vida
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Costa Rica’s Simple Life
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Never Pay for a Hotel Again?
I'd heard about couchsurfing before I went to Belgium this past week, but I'd always been a little skeptical. The ...
Weekend Trip to Kyoto, Japan: Green Bean Kit Kats, Gion and History Dramas
by Jes Stayton, Greenheart Travel Participant in the High School Abroad Program Last week there was a holiday from the ...
Spending America’s Fourth of July Weekend in Nice, Working on French Pronunciation
by Joy Mason, Greenheart Travel Language School participant Friday Good news, I held an entire conversation with Pierre and Isabelle ...
Hella Stealing from our Roommate's Ghost
Getting off the plane Alisa and I couldn’t have been more relieved; we had 5 months of language learning to ...
Missing Microwave Dinners, Michael and Learning French by Playing Wii
by Joy Mason, Greenheart Travel French Language School participant. Part II in Joy’s account of learning French in Antibes, France… ...
Czeching my reflection...
The three month mark has come and gone. Looking back, I realize that I've pretty much accomplished what I set ...
Mapping Out a Connection Between Other Countries and Cultures
by Jill Robinson with Greenheart Travel I could spend hours looking at a map. It doesn’t matter if it’s a ...
Shootin' hoops in Prague
A few weekends back I was making my way to the city center. I expected to see the usual: tourists following ...
Home Stays Abroad: 15 ways to be part of the family
by Jill Robinson with Greenheart Travel Home stays abroad are one of the best ways to experience a culture while ...
Travel is Like a High School Dance
by Jill Robinson with Greenheart Travel Traveling can be like attending a high school dance. There is the swell of ...
5 Ways to Save Money While Traveling or Studying Abroad
by Jill Robinson with Greenheart Travel If we waited until we were financially stable and debt free to travel or ...
Inspiration for the Armchair Traveler; Part II
by Jill Robinson with Greenheart Travel In keeping up with current events, the headlines today have been looking bleak. After ...
Put Down the Camera; Learning to Really Capture the Moment When We Travel
by Jill Robinson There is something about embarking on a new adventure, exploring new cultures, places, food and smells that ...
Celebrate small victories!
My mom suggested I do as the Romans do, but that I don't do the Romans... I've got a guy ...
Five Reasons to Help Convince Your Parents to Let You Study Abroad
by Jill Robinson You have studied Europe on a Shoestring front to back, worked overtime to save for a flight ...
Machu Picchu; A World Wonder
by Rachel Chaikof A strike happened again! Yes, for real. Fortunately, the strike only affected the taxis. So, I had ...
Manu Trip Part II; Early Morning Boat Ride
by Rachel Chaikof Water was sprinkling my face. Cool winds swayed by my face causing my hair to flap. I ...
Seneca on Travel
This is one of my favorite travel essays ever, written around the first century AD. I include it here for ...
Thoughts from Guatemala
Over the last several days I have been saving up lots of things to write about, and am only now ...
Discovering a New, Strange Place; Part I
by Rachel Chaikof Watching the transformation of the landscape as I ride through the Andes Mountains to the rain forest ...
Live and learn; Mistakes are Inevitable in Travel Adventures
Today I discovered a fantastic blog post by Robert Reid, called “47 or So Dumb Things I’ve Done Traveling.” The ...
Table for One Please; Learning to Travel Alone
by Jill Robinson At 17 years old, Zac Sunderland has become the youngest person to sail around the world solo, ...
Como Se Dice?; I speak Spanish Like a Three-Year-Old
by Jill Robinson The final lesson in Greenheart Travel’s “Survival Spanish” course was held a few days ago, and I ...
About me and my work
I have worked as a photojournalist since 1992 for various newspapers in Ohio, Indiana, New Hampshire and New Jersey. Documentary ...
Prague Spring and Summer Thunderstorms
I can't recall the last time I really walked in the rain: remaining so present in the moment, not caring ...
Hamburgers, Sausages and Cologne Dom
Made it out of Prague and safely into Germany, despite the fact that our aircraft's main breaks malfunctioned right before ...
Expensive Semester
I knew going into studying abroad that it was going to be expensive and in preparing for it, I am reminded ...
Finding a job at home or abroad... Giving up's just not an option.
Just a few years ago, college graduation was quickly approaching and I was faced with the all too familiar and ...
No moves? No problem...
"Bar, club or disco?" Call me boring, introverted or just plain dull, but I don't do a whole lot of ...
All Aboard the Minibus
Come tomorrow, I will have been navigating my way around the city of Cape Town for exactly three weeks. The ...
Why we travel.
Supposedly I was going back to the U.S. yesterday. I had a flight, but it left without me. Here I ...
Will Obama Lift the U.S. Travel Ban to Cuba?
If you were planning to study abroad in Cuba in the fall of 2005, chances are that the U.S. Department ...
On the Road
On the Road There is a build up of emotions before, during, and after arriving at a new place. ...
The Act of Traveling
The Act of Traveling I love missing flights. I love when the weather turns foul and the rain is ...
The Earthquake and the Cardigan
On Friday night, I felt a quake. Or maybe I didn't. It's harder to tell than one might think. The ...
