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WE’RE BACK!

And this time we want to show you our sweet moves.

Check out Willie and Andrew’s very first rap video complete with original music and lyrics!

Holla at cha boiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Andrew tries desperately to convey to Willie how amazing an opportunity the Vantastic Voyage is. Spoiler Alert: He succeeds.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless

LOST

LOSTI am a LOST nerd.

I’m not afraid to admit it. I have seen every episode, perused every fansite/blog, created/debunked theories and dreamt of LOST.

I have even played the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 in the lottery.

Needless to say LOST is not a TV show, it is a lifestyle.

What does this have to do with anything?

If you’ve never seen it, LOST is a show about a group of strangers at a crossroad in their lives who become stranded in an unfamiliar place.

I think the reason I enjoy watching LOST so much is because it is reminiscent of my travel experiences.

When I am traveling I have John Locke’s sense of adventure, Jack’s beard, Hurley’s appetite and Sayid’s accent (okay maybe that’s wishful thinking).

All jokes aside, I didn’t have the privilege of traveling until my senior year of high school.

I was excited to audition for a school in New York but when I was done I realized I was alone without money and a place to stay. I wandered the city for two days and when I felt tired I crashed at a church. I encountered the most kind, interesting, unique and strange people on that trip and all because I bit up the nerve to leave my comfort zone.

Since then, I have travelled as often as I could with as little as possible. I’ve eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a month because it’s all I could afford, i’ve hitchhiked as a reliable source of transportation, and I’ve been homeless.

My travel experiences have shown me that sometimes when you think you are lost, you just haven’t let yourself be found.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World

Travel Philosophy 101 ————————— I studied improv. The art - and yes, it is an art - of getting on a stage, without a script, and inventing characters and scenes that unfold naturally. There’s a theory of improvisation called the ‘Yes, And-’ theory. Which states that you should never ever deny anything that another actor says. If they claim to be eating an improv banana, you don’t tell them ‘You’re wrong, it’s an orange.’ You tell them, ‘Look out behind you, that gorilla’s coming for your fruit.’ You embrace and enhance. It’s the only way that the scene will progress, and the only way to keep an audience member’s attention. This is how I like to travel. To embrace and enhance. I’m a ‘Yes, And’ adventurer. I’ve had the travel bug ever since my parents talked me into visiting Mexico at the ripe and impressionable age of ten. Three ruins, one jungle, one reef, and four wild stingrays later, I couldn’t stop looking at maps and deciding where to go next. Since then, I’ve hopped across the world as often as I could. I’ve traveled to a dozen different countries and countless more cities (sometimes in groups, sometimes alone), spent a week in a canal boat, sought out as many festivals as I could find, and even moved to London for half a year. So by now, I know how I like to travel. And it’s on a whim. I resent the GPS — I’d rather take a wrong turn and see where it leads me. If you don’t get lost, you can’t get found. I want to truly experience the area around me, to take my time and acclimate myself until the little details can shine through, or to strike up a conversation with whoever comes my way. I want to experience EVERYTHING, to completely excise the word ‘no’ from my vocabulary. I want to just roll with it, and let the journey overtake me. To say, ‘Yes, And…’ That’s how I like to travel. -A

Travel Philosophy 101

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I studied improv.

The art - and yes, it is an art - of getting on a stage, without a script, and inventing characters and scenes that unfold naturally.

There’s a theory of improvisation called the ‘Yes, And-’ theory. Which states that you should never ever deny anything that another actor says. If they claim to be eating an improv banana, you don’t tell them ‘You’re wrong, it’s an orange.’ You tell them, ‘Look out behind you, that gorilla’s coming for your fruit.’ You embrace and enhance. It’s the only way that the scene will progress, and the only way to keep an audience member’s attention.

This is how I like to travel. To embrace and enhance. I’m a ‘Yes, And’ adventurer.

I’ve had the travel bug ever since my parents talked me into visiting Mexico at the ripe and impressionable age of ten. Three ruins, one jungle, one reef, and four wild stingrays later, I couldn’t stop looking at maps and deciding where to go next.

Since then, I’ve hopped across the world as often as I could. I’ve traveled to a dozen different countries and countless more cities (sometimes in groups, sometimes alone), spent a week in a canal boat, sought out as many festivals as I could find, and even moved to London for half a year.

So by now, I know how I like to travel. And it’s on a whim. I resent the GPS — I’d rather take a wrong turn and see where it leads me. If you don’t get lost, you can’t get found. I want to truly experience the area around me, to take my time and acclimate myself until the little details can shine through, or to strike up a conversation with whoever comes my way. I want to experience EVERYTHING, to completely excise the word ‘no’ from my vocabulary. I want to just roll with it, and let the journey overtake me.

To say, ‘Yes, And…’

That’s how I like to travel.

-A

I like to think that this is a re-imagination of the cover of When Harry Met Sally in Paris.

I like to think that this is a re-imagination of the cover of When Harry Met Sally in Paris.

The Youghiogheny River: I may not be able to pronounce it, but I sure can raft it.

The Youghiogheny River: I may not be able to pronounce it, but I sure can raft it.

Cinque Terre: the Italian Coast. I took this picture roughly eight hours before I missed my train and was stranded there for the night. Without a hotel. Coincidentally, that was also my favorite night of the trip.

Cinque Terre: the Italian Coast.

I took this picture roughly eight hours before I missed my train and was stranded there for the night. Without a hotel. Coincidentally, that was also my favorite night of the trip.

Because of some delicious gnocchi that I refused to leave unfinished, I missed the last Florence-bound train out of Cinque Terre and wound up stranded on the Italian coast for the night. When the trains started running again at 3am, I hopped from one to the other, desperately trying to get back to my hostel. Which is how I found myself in Pisa at 4am, when every possible tourist attraction was closed and when the Leaning Tower itself was gated off for the night. I wound up sleeping on the floor of a train station and then, in Florence, where our hostel was locked, I slept on the street. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. That pasta was delicious.

Because of some delicious gnocchi that I refused to leave unfinished, I missed the last Florence-bound train out of Cinque Terre and wound up stranded on the Italian coast for the night. When the trains started running again at 3am, I hopped from one to the other, desperately trying to get back to my hostel.

Which is how I found myself in Pisa at 4am, when every possible tourist attraction was closed and when the Leaning Tower itself was gated off for the night.

I wound up sleeping on the floor of a train station and then, in Florence, where our hostel was locked, I slept on the street.

Would I do it again?

In a heartbeat.

That pasta was delicious.

Not that you can really tell, but this is Thanksgiving. In Copenhagen. We went to an amusement park while it was snowing, and the only warmth I could find was by cuddling up to this cute, plastic panda. To this day, it’s the healthiest romantic relationship I’ve ever had.

Not that you can really tell, but this is Thanksgiving. In Copenhagen. We went to an amusement park while it was snowing, and the only warmth I could find was by cuddling up to this cute, plastic panda.

To this day, it’s the healthiest romantic relationship I’ve ever had.

Hollywood. From my sojourn across the US.

Hollywood. From my sojourn across the US.

I was so proud to discover this process all on my own. I thought I’d invented a new form of experimental photography! Turns out it’s called a ‘zoom burst’ and it’s been around for years.

I was so proud to discover this process all on my own. I thought I’d invented a new form of experimental photography! Turns out it’s called a ‘zoom burst’ and it’s been around for years.