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Our full-page map in the “Traveling Well” edition of WM includes a journal that Communications and Marketing Videographer Adam Phipps’11 kept during an excursion he took with friends from Bucharest, Romania to Krakow, Poland, toward […]

Read More - From Dreams to “Stark Reality” in Eastern Europe

“Every house I lived in while I was growing up was struck by lightning.” What sounds like a great first line for a short story or novel is actually long-time Crawfordsville resident […]

Read More - Understanding, Wisdom, and Empathy

The following is the preface to Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram, by Charles Johnson ’65. The retired naturalist for the State of Vermont, Johnson has been fascinated with […]

Read More - Traveling Well: Charles Johnson ’65 and the Polar Adventurer Fram

Alan White ’60 was seven years old and playing at his friend Jimmy Beers’ house in Jackson, MI, the first time he heard a piano played live. “There was this beautiful noise from […]

Read More - Alan White ’60: Not Without the Music

Two Wabash leaders—Wabash President Gregory Hess and Head Football Coach Don Morel— offer their takes, from very different perspectives, on the value of travel. The Art of Travel by Gregory Hess When […]

Read More - The Art of Travel—Gregory Hess and Don Morel

When the day came for me to board the airplane for the United States, I was truly excited. I was also totally unprepared. by Ken Sun ’88 It is not very fashionable […]

Read More - A Man’s Life: Thriving in the Unknown

Travel advice from our globetrotting alumni and faculty for first-time international wayfarers—and some stories from their adventures. “Choose the Complete Unknown” by  Smike Wallen ’90 About a decade ago I went through an […]

Read More - Travelers’ Advisory: “Choose the Complete Unknown”

by Bill Cook ’66 Online exclusive: More travel stories from our alumni and faculty The oldest man calmly got up, pulled out an AK-47, and then loaded it and waved it toward us. I […]

Read More - Travelers’ Advisory: The Problem with Nodding

Read More - What Does It Mean to “Travel Well”?

Wabash President Frank Sparks’ passport and the pocket watch that belonged to Professor Bill Placher’s father are among the artifacts and souvenirs from the Wabash Archives and other contributors on this map […]

Read More - Touchstones—Map from Baxter, Artifacts from Many

“Dear Friends, I bid your prayers in this Christmas season. “Let us pray for those like Mary and Joseph who lack a safe place to spend the night—for refugees from war and […]

Read More - Campus Is Closed, and Yet…

WM followed the Little Giants to Albion for the season opener to find out why Wabash teams get such great support from fans on the road. Here are photos of the team’s day as […]

Read More - Traveling Well: On the Road to Albion