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Tag Archives: Road trips

The road trip and the teenage soul

2 Comments Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on September 30, 2011

Beginning today, Charlotte Day joins The Displaced Nation as monthly columnist and will comment on our themes from her third culture kid (Australia-US-UK) perspective. September, of course, was road trip month. Though Charlotte has yet to earn her driver’s license, the prospect of free time between high school and university has begun to fuel her [...]

What a Displaced World Charlotte Day column, Road trips, Russia, Siberia, Third Culture Kid, UK

The light-hearted answer to Robert Pirsig — travel author Allie Sommerville

Leave a Comment Posted by ML Awanohara on September 28, 2011

I know what you’re thinking. They can’t seriously be planning to feature Allie Sommerville in a month where they’re celebrating the joys of the open road? For those who haven’t heard the news yet, Sommerville is the author of Uneasy Rider: Confessions of a Reluctant Traveller, and we’re doing an interview with her today, as [...]

What a Displaced World Domestic expats, Europe, Isle of Wight, Italy, Road trips, Spain, Strange sightings, UK, Writers we love

Gotta helmet? Time to burn some rubber, have a real travel adventure

7 Comments Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on September 25, 2011

The Displaced Nation has dedicated the month of September to the ideas within Robert Pirsig’s classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. But enough with theory. What’s it really like to see the world from the back of a motorcycle — and what are us more timid types missing out on? Rubber hits the [...]

What a Displaced World Austria, Europe, Hungary, Road trips, UK

RANDOM NOMAD: Kirsty Rice, Freelance Writer & Blogger

19 Comments Posted by ML Awanohara on September 21, 2011

Born in: Renmark*, South Australia Passport: Australia (no one else will have me!) Countries lived in: Australia (Adelaide & Perth): 1997-98; Indonesia (Jakarta): 1999 – 2001; Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur): 2001-02; Libya (Tripoli): 2002-04; Canada (Calgary): 2004-08; USA (Houston): 2008-09; Qatar (Doha): 2010-present. Cyberspace coordinates: 4 kids, 20 suitcases and a beagle (blog) *A small town [...]

Random Nomads Australia, Canada, Expat interviews, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Middle East, Movable feasts, Qatar, Road trips, Third Culture Kid, USA

Music for a road trip? Anything but a certain song…

Leave a Comment Posted by Kate Allison on September 20, 2011

Mothers of school age children can spend hours at a time in the car — a mini road trip every day, ferrying the kids between school, karate, swimming lessons, music lessons… This piece, originally titled “California Guys”, first appeared on my own blog, Marmite and Fluff, after I had heard a certain song on the [...]

What a Displaced World Road trips

6 kinds of road trips and the best cars, real and fantasy, to travel in

3 Comments Posted by Kate Allison on September 19, 2011

To take a road trip, one must have a suitable mode of transport. Most of our road trips were made in a soccer-mom-mobile — a 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan, high in practicality but decidedly low in street cred. For our young family 14 years ago, however, it was perfect as we traveled through Maine, Quebec, [...]

What a Displaced World Road trips

RANDOM NOMAD: Camden Luxford, Hostel Owner, Freelance Writer/Blogger & Student

6 Comments Posted by ML Awanohara on September 14, 2011

Born in: Mackay, Queensland, Australia Passport: Australia Countries lived in: United Kingdom (Brighton, Oxford, Edinburgh, and a country hotel near Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales): 2005-06; Peru (Cusco): 2009-present. Cyberspace coordinates: The Brink of Something Else (blog) What made you leave your homeland in the first place? I left, at 20, because I’d always had an [...]

Random Nomads Argentina, Australia, Expat interviews, Movable feasts, Peru, Road trips, South America, UK, Wales

The Displaced Q: Road trip – a simple journey, or a life-changing event?

7 Comments Posted by Kate Allison on September 13, 2011

Every year, a small number of people in biking leathers get on their motorcycles in Minnesota and set off on back roads toward the Dakotas. From Montana, they swerve briefly into Idaho and Wyoming, before riding across Oregon and down the final stretch to San Francisco. They’re known as Pirsig’s Pilgrims — bikers who faithfully follow the route that [...]

What a Displaced World Road trips, Writers we love

The John Steinbeck Encyclopedia of Road Trips

5 Comments Posted by ML Awanohara on September 12, 2011

When we announced this month’s theme — road trips — some of you may have wondered if we’d gone around the bend. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – really? That’s a book for roadgeeks or — if you get into its philosophical meanderings — Roads Scholars, not for Displaced Nation types, most of [...]

Displaced Hall of Fame Road trips, USA, Writers we love