Arm Chair travel for complicated times By Shue Gottschalk Spontaneous international travel is still complicated in year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, but armchair travel…
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Alexis Bakken Editor: Lili Sarajian Door County, also known as the “Cape Cod of the Midwest,” is on a peninsula that juts out between Green…
If you’re like me, your favorite part of traveling is having your breath taken away by the most magnificent scenic landscapes. Let’s begin our virtual sightseeing tour of these miraculous places …
Believe it or not, one of my favorite memories in Rome was not in a church decorated with pearls or a restaurant with mozzarella balls tied with pirate rope hanging from the ceiling. It was on a late night bus driving back to a convent …
To all of my fellow travellers who have a travel itch they haven’t been able to scratch, here are a few things to appease your wanderlust …
One of my most memorable travel experiences was my trip overseas to Germany with some friends a few years back. We visited Dresden, Berlin, and Leipzig, and even managed to sneak over to Prague …
It’s no question that Covid made traveling harder than ever, and with the shift to online classes, this semester has been more stressful. However, the holiday season is upon us and there is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to enjoy it. Here are five things you can do around Wisconsin and Minnesota …
Music, costumes, and crowds, local wines and the tempting scents of traditional foods. Italy is rich in beauty and culture any time of the year, but the streets and piazzas truly come to life during holiday celebrations…
There is a lot we can learn from other cultures around the world. There is a great amount of diversity that we can often overlook living in our own personal lives, stuck in our own cultural habits. I had the opportunity to sit down with some dear friends of mine, Jake Kornick and Tom Grasley, and talk about their trip to Port Elizabeth, South Africa …
Anna lives on a farm in a small town by the name of Nestelbach, which is in the district of Graz, in the Austrian state of Styria. I gazed out the window as the train passed through the rolling Alps. I began to feel frantic that I was living with my best friend’s family for an entire month, yet did not know anything about the language beside a failed attempt at Rosetta Stone.
When it comes to cities in Australia, everyone tends to know about Sydney, but few are aware of the gem that is Perth, Australia. Located on the West Coast of Australia with 2 million residents, it is the largest isolated city in the world and a five-hour flight from Sydney.
Around a month ago, I went from cruising happily through my last semester of college to a screeching halt at my parents’ home, socially distanced…