| Photography | Essays and travelogues |
 | Life in two languages
by Katie Dutli
I stick to my stance that any cross cultural, study-abroad
learning experience is hard to digest, let alone explain; and your experiences will not likely be fully understood by anyone who hasn’t experienced the same. Katie Dutli photo |
| | To Wyoming and beyond
by David Paullin
I initially did not want to come to Wyoming. I did not think there was any way that I was going to come there. |
 | A journey of discovery
by Greena George
The day before my thirteenth birthday, I left the country of my birth to the U.S. Sierra Golden photo |
| | Le problème éternel of the monolinguist
by Adam Waterreus
How does a man who doesn’t speak any other language survive in a foreign land? I devoured online forums, guidebooks, and, at the lucky opportunity of finding someone who had taken part in such an adventure, I would pelt them with questions. |
 | A journey to the center of the self
by Kristin Deasy
The word “being” doesn’t resonate with modern consciousness, I have been informed. Well, find a word that signifies all of a person, because
there is more to me than say, my silly red nails. At the same time, I do participate in a physical world. The fact that we live at once in both an “inner” world and an “outer” world is part of what is meant by being. Chris Dreyer photo |
| | Swimming upstream: Reflecting on faith abroad
by Paul Forster
In the man’s own words, “I love England and this town, but the real shame is that my country has become so bloody atheistic.” By the time my term of study at Oxford came to an end, I had come to much the same conclusion. |
 | Speaking more softly, wearing more pants, walking more carefully
by Thomas Veazey
Travel changes you. You adapt to weather, train schedules, lost baggage, full hotels, multiple cultures, languages, and foods – and as you adapt your attitude and demeanor follows. Kat Brauer photo |
 | journal pages
by Adam Waterreus Adam Waterreus photo |
 | Another Travelin’ Song: Lessons learned from songs of travel by Vaughan Williams and others
by Robert Cowan
We all have our favorite traveling songs; songs which always find their ways on our essential car mixes for long road trips, songs which merely recall the wonder of a trip long past, songs which inspire us to strike out for the open road. Chris Dreyer photo |
| "Young Monk"
Xiahe, Gansu Province, China
Kat Brauer photo |
| "Tibetan Woman"
Langmusi, Sichuan Province, China
Kat Brauer photo |
 | Turbulence on re-entry: Experiencing culture shock
by Katie Dutli
When I got back to Rome, I was telling my friends of my culture shock in the grocery store, and it continues to be a reminder to me about my culture, and how visitors to our country must feel when they first arrive. Chris Dreyer photo |
 | Habits of the hoarding heart
by Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen
Refugees and second-generation refugees tend to become pack rats, hoarding both memory and “junk” until they go for a cleaning binge. This is after growing up knowing that everything they have today is more more than they have ever possessed or experienced. Chris Dreyer photo |
| | Happy Crossings
by Chris Heinrich
It would be appropriate to say I was drained by the time I dragged myself on to the Airbus that would take myself and my fellow French students back across the Atlantic to the United States. |
 | The road winds ever on and on
by Chris Sparks
In reality, we are all traveling. We are all walking steadily, constantly through time, moving onwards towards the inevitable destination of death. We are all flying on a mad ride through space, rushing onwards to who knows where, who knows why, wheeling, and spinning and soaring through space, one small piece of the celestial dance. Chris Dreyer photo |
 | Culture wars: Fighting ethnocentrism through travel
by Linnea Wood
Overall, traveling reduces ethnocentrism that many people suffer from. By exposing people to the differences in cultures, it is hopeful that these people would learn that the differences in societies should bring us closer, not divide us because of our different traditions and customs. Patrick Constantino photo |
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| Blurred perspective: Place, perception and identity
by Chris Dreyer
One is always tied in some way to physical location. Your mind can span an eternity, defying all forms of quantification. But, being a physical being in a physical world, location is everything – or, while not “everything,” then at the very least, a defining part of the equation. Chris Dreyer photo
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