In putting together the first issue of the UC Berkeley CLUJ Travel Section, our editors read lots of unique and imaginative pieces of travel writing from all over the world — this issue represents a distillation of the most remarkable stories we could find. Our collection this semester includes a poem about San Francisco, a fictional letter to the architect of a beautiful castle, and portraits of friendship, alienation, culture clash, and beauty from Brazil to Mongolia. We hope you enjoy reading these travel pieces as much as we have enjoyed bringing them to you.
Notes from the Periphery by Cleo Margaret Abramian
Exploring the Eternal City by Laura Aitken-Burt
Le Vrai Paris by K. S. Anthony
Coffee and Community by Hillary Bush
Following the Yellow Brick Road by Jennifer Carter
Comme Une Vache! by Yeseung Jang
Together in Paris by Ellen Kim
Hitched Rides and Bullet Trains: The World that I Traveled in One Summer by Lisa Levin
Mongolia: A Desert Bloom by Jenna Jacobson
In Moscow God Moves in Mysterious Ways by J.W.D. Lewin
Reflections Over Wastelands by Caleigh McEachern
The Road Seldom Taken to Verona by Lena Naassana
A Letter to Wicklow by Emma Pell
Sweaty Feet by Michael Rothbaum
Baring All for Berlin by Lindsay Walter
How to Talk French (to Dogs) by Alexander Woolley
A Quiet Type of Pilgrimage by Alexis Wolf
Going to God by Emerson Richards
[Body] Language by Maggie Palmer
Bordeaux Comic by Kelsey Westphal
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