Three-Day Rule On my first backpacking trip, I almost booked my flight back to Korea on the third day. It was a month-long trip, but I remembered what my dad said, “You can always change your ticket if you want to come home early.” On the third day, I was lying on my hostel bed
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To the Arctic Desert Our Arctic expedition didn’t end at the Arctic Circle. I rode the Aurora Winter Train from Anchorage to Fairbanks, and drove to Coldfood Camp, 10 miles north of the Arctic Circle. We visited Jack in Wiseman, a small Arctic village near the Koyukuk River. Now, it was time to drive into the Brooks
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Please Support #aweasia14 Thanks everyone who supported AWE ’13! Because of your help and affection, we successfully hosted our very first global conference. Asian Women’s Empowerment Conference 2014 ✪ Presented by AWE Organization (founder: Juno Kim) ✪ Website: http://conference.aweasia.org ✪ Twitter: @aweasia #aweasia14 ✪ Facebook: AWE Organization Last year, I wanted to present this idea to all of you
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Aurora Winter Train was one of the most intense train rides I’ve ever been. Here is the reason why… A train is one of my favorite ways to travel. There’s just something romantic about it. The Aurora Winter Train runs from Anchorage to Fairbanks on Saturdays, and the other way around on Sundays. The
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Why You Should Visit Naples, Italy The name Naples, Napoli in Italian, originated from the ancient Green name Neapolis which means new city. The Greeks first established the city and inhabited the region before Roman times. Now, thousands of years later, Naples attracts travelers from around the world with its unique charm and history. The
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Northern Lights in the Alaskan Arctic The luck came to me once, in Iceland. Seeing aurora (aurora borealis, or northern lights) was high on my list of things to do since I was a kid, and it finally happened years later. Ever since I changed my lifestyle from a 70-hour work week at the office
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You will find the natural gore-tex, gut parka, in Alaska Isn’t it amazing to learn how much more our ancestors knew about the world, than what we know now? We think that technology’s evolved, that all the studies and Google helped us understand the world better, but in fact, we know so little about the
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Seward Highway: A Destination Itself If your goal is to take the perfect landscape photo on Seward Highway, you may be driving for a while, since this road is overloaded with perfect spots. Seward Highway, connecting Anchorage and Seward, is a destination itself. It passes some of the most scenic places in
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Their State Flag is my favorite, that symbolizes ‘North to the Future’. Alaska, a state of the Last Frontier, is a whole new world. Once I reconciled with winter, I spent a good three weeks in the North Country, Alaska. I wanted to experience a true winter, and also I missed good snow and
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“The happiest civilization which I have knowledge.” -Robert Marshall There is a town called Wiseman by the Koyukuk River in Brooks Range. It was once the northern most gold mining camp in North America. The town boomed from 1911 to 1915, after large quantities of gold were discovered in the creek in 1907. Now, there’s
