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Boston, Massachusetts ---> Montreal, Quebec:
Approx. 5 hours, 22 min by car

Syracuse, New York ---> Montreal, Quebec:
Approx. 4 hours,13 min by car

Montpelier, Vermont ---> Montreal, Quebec:
Approx. 2 hours, 34 min by car

Looking for international travel but don't have the budget? If you live in the Northeastern United States than just pack the car and head North. In a few hours you will cross the border into Quebec, where French is the official language, the architecture is reminiscent of the old world, and the nightlife continues well past 2 AM.

So how does one make the most of a quick trip to Montreal? Everywhere member, Tim Borrego shares a obvious but underutilized tip on how to quickly navigate unfamiliar territory: Ask the locals! Read his article: Social Wayfinding in Montreal, to learn how he got the skinny on the city.


(Photo: Getting Directions, by Tim Borrego.)


For a slightly longer drive though the pastoral countryside, Quebec City has a certain "Je ne sais quoi" according to member Jessica Feis.

In her essay, Captivating Québec City, Jessica describes the romance and mystique of this beautiful destination. Cobblestone streets, packed restaurants, and a delectable french foods make US visitors forget how near they are to home. Read about her trip and see her fantastic photos.


(Photo: Chateau Frontenac and the St. Lawrence River, by Jessica Feis.)

The Amish way of life has a mystique to all who live outside of it. To we that surf the web and buy our butter and candles at the store, we marvel at the vitality and endurance of the Amish societies in the United States. There are Amish-Mennonite settlements in 27 states, with the largest in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Visiting one of them is equivalent to time travel... where buggies, farms, and handmade villages abound

Everywhere member, Laurie Frey shares wonderful stories and images of her tours through several Amish communities in the US.

In her travel story, Amish Family Values, Laurie shares her experience of being welcomed for lunch and an afternoon at the home of an Amish family with seven children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.


(Photo: Sunday Night Party, by Laurie Frey.)

In her other essay, Cell Phones, Buggy Lights and Parties in an Amish Community, takes us to the Amish community of Daviess County, Indiana. To Laurie's surprise (and mine), the people there had electric lights in their buggies, and... cell phones? Read more about the things that surprised her there... especially the wild parties.


(Photo: Amish Farm. Holmes County, Ohio, by Laurie Frey.)

Washington has a bounty of beautiful forests, beaches, and countryside... but is not known for its abundance of sunshine.  However, to visit Washington in July and August is a different story. After a few days of sunlit hiking in the lush landscapes surrounding Seattle, one may be compelled to sell the family home in California. 

Summer in Washington is not to be missed.  Here are some recommendations for great  hiking and recreation from Everywhere members.


Snoqualmie Falls is located just a short drive outside of Seattle and is a nice place to go to when you're looking to get out of the city. At the Falls there is a park, hiking trails, deck (which is a great picture location), and gift shop.


(Photo: Falls, by Alison Reese .)

Twin Falls State Park is just a few miles East of North Bend, Washington along Interstate 90. If you like hiking and love to see waterfalls this is a must see. Especially since it is so easy to access and close to the city.


(Photo: Along the Trail Past the Falls , by Aaron Hatch .)

Cape Disappointment State Park does not live up to it's namesake.  It sits at the mouth of the Columbia River and boasts beautiful scenery.  If you want to spend a few days exploring the area and hiking, you can rent out rooms in one of the lighthouse keeper's homes and enjoy the surroundings.


(Photo: View South, by Niko Vujevic .)

To the Everywhere Community,

Launching a travel magazine was always an ambitious undertaking, but 8020 Publishing is committed to the idea of creating beautiful publications that combine the vitality of the Web with the richness of print. You made it possible for us to produce four terrific issues of Everywhere, but sadly we must now suspend publication of the magazine.

Why? At the end of the day, we just aren't where we need to be, business-wise, with the website or magazine. Suspending publication of Everywhere will enable 8020 Publishing to focus on improving the community platform behind JPG Magazine, 8020's other title. That, in turn, will benefit all the future titles 8020 plans to produce.

In the meantime, the Everywhere website at everywheremag.com will remain online so you can continue to share your travel stories and photos. If you subscribed to Everywhere, you will be contacted soon with information about refund options.

It goes without saying that this is a disappointing turn of events. Most of all, though, I can't tell you how much we enjoyed having the opportunity to collaborate with so many intrepid travelers, wonderful writers, and talented photographers. It's been a privilege working with you all, and we had a ton of fun along the way. You've inspired us, entertained us, awed us, and given us an incurable case of wanderlust. Thank you.

So while this leg of the trip is winding down, the road is long, and the journey continues.

Onward,

Todd Lappin
Editor
Everywhere Magazine

Photo: Highway 20, somewhere in central Idaho. Photo by Todd Lappin

Have you ever wanted to get into architectural tourism, but were sadly dissuaded after realizing you had to learn a dictionary full of architectural terms and buy eight different guidebooks to cover all the specifics?

Well, stop feeling deterred and check out Galinsky.com, an online resource built to compliment the needs of any architectural travel enthusiast. Whatever your knowledge level is, you wont have to worry about being bogged down with obscure terms only the professionals in the field know how to pronounce. Instead you get to look through a series of interesting easy-to-read blurbs on a handful of noteworthy modern architectural sights in the region you're interested in. Unfortunately Galinsky only covers modern architecture at the moment, so all you Neoclassical and Spanish Colonial aficionados will sadly need to search elsewhere for now.

But if this is up your alley, you wont need to worry about dishing out any cash to get the glossy version to take with you, Galinsky offers PDF travel packs on several regions they highlight, which you can print out at your leisure. The downfall here is that they only feature a few regions for their travel packs, so if you're into their blurbs on architecture in Buenos Aires, you'll have to print directly from the site. This site is great, but it does leave you wanting more. The printed version! More travel packs! A series on Gothic Revival architecture! But we'll be patient and enjoy all they do offer in the meantime.

(Photo: Waves and Lights, by Eduardo Cervantes.)

The Harley-Davidson museum opened its doors this month on 20-acres of reclaimed industrial land along the Milwaukee peninsula. And just in time too! Celebrations for the 105th anniversary have thousands of Harley enthusiasts riding their beloved two-wheelers across the country and straight into Milwaukee's largest summer party.

Designed by architect James Biber and his team at Pentagram Design, the plan for the museum was inspired by a photograph of an old factory, taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher. The factory theme became the common thread through the museum's structure, which exposes most of the support beams and steel that make up the frame.

One of the most symbolic elements is the  four-sided steel tower (right) at the entrance, which encases a massive Harley logo. Willie G. Davidson, chief styling officer, brought in a Lego version of his vision during the design phase and thought that since the Harley engine is the jewel in the frame of a Harley motorcycle, the Harley logo should effectively be the jewel in the frame of the museum, and mimic the look of an engine in a motorcycle frame. Pretty cool, Willie!

The opening of the Harley Davidson museum is exactly what the Grand Opening theme is all about. Celebration events for Harley's 105th anniversary will run from August 17-27, and the new museum will run for much longer than that. If you are venturing to Milwaukee for the grand opening events and anniversary celebrations tell us about it, and if you encounter any Grand Openings of your own on your travels, tell us about them here!

(Photos above: Street View of Isleton, California, by Karen Schmautz and below: Entrance to the new Harley-Davidson Museum from blog.pentagram.com.) 

Getting off the beaten track is not a new concept to all you intrepid travelers, but Cheryn Flanagan takes steering clear of the crowds to new heights in her article Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail… And Off the Beaten Tourist Track. Cheryn recounts her journey down Vietnam's eastern seaboard and avoiding the popular Highway One, which connects Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. Tourists who take the common route usually buy an open bus circuit ticket, which allows them to get on and off the bus as they please. While certainly a cheap and effective way to see the coast, there’s one problem: everyone is doing it and it’s getting a bit crowded.

The alternative is to do it Cheryn’s way: by motorcycle. Easy Riders, a group of freelance motorcycle guides based in the Central Highlands and South Central Coast, take travelers on the back of their bikes for a four-day adventure that spans over 500 miles. Cheryn signed up the moment she caught wind of the alternate passage. Here's how she describes the end of her 4-day journey:

When the road we’d been traveling met up with Highway One, congested with tourist buses on their way to Nha Trang, Dung (the tour guide) pulled over... “I show you real Vietnam,” he said... I looked at the bored faces staring out from windows of the tour buses speeding by and replied, “Yes Dung, you did."

Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail …and Off the Beaten Tourist Track isn't the only delectable contribution in Cheryn’s travelogue. This lady has chock full of all the goods we love getting at Everywhere, check it her out here!

(Photo: Easy Rider, by Cheryn Flanagan.)

In their article about San Francisco’s Love Affair with Asia Ruth and Rich Carlson draw from the many Asian influences this West Coast city embodies, and walk us through the perfect travel day in San Francisco.

We begin with a tranquil yoga session at one of San Francisco's newest additions, Hotel Vitale, located on the Embarcadero. After we've found our calm, it's onto a vintage streetcar headed for the Asian Art Museum at the Civic Center Plaza, where Ruth and Rich cue us in on some of the city's rich architectural history.

Chinatown is up next as we're guided through one of the most colorful parts of town and encouraged to enjoy some artisan tea in one of the many tea houses. All this before we indulge in a lavish dinner at the splashy Japanese restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel, where the cross-cultural cuisine embodies San Francisco's Asian fusion tendency to it's finest. And a trip to the historic Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park rounds the day off nicely. With so much to do, we wont begrudge you if you stretch this one-day adventure into two!

Remember, San Francisco is a Theme for Issue 05! So if you know of any great spots or have a fantastic story from your last visit, tell us about it here!

Today at 9:05 am PDT, Amazon started reporting an outage with S3, the online storage service we use to host images on Everywhere. Because of this, all photos were unavailable, and uploading new images would also be problematic. This lasted until some time around 4:40 pm.

We're sorry about this unexpected outage! As of this time, Amazon still hasn't reported back how the problem got started. The good news is that all your uploaded images from before are fine. If you tried uploading an image during the outage, and it's not showing up on the site, uploading should now work and you can have at it again.

Being a pedestrian on the streets of Hanoi or Saigon in Vietnam requires a kind of roadway mastery only the brave and slightly reckless can achieve. But you can do just that with a little help from Tobias Peciva and his article, Crossing the Street in Vietnam. This efficient guide is a sure-fire way to get you safely crossing the daunting, traffic-congested streets in Vietnam in no time!

Don't be derailed by Tobias' first suggestion to avoid looking both ways before you cross — this makes sense if you read on.  And while your first inclination may be to run like crazy, he gently reminds us to take it slow and walk in a straight line. And if all else fails, it looks like waiting for an old lady to turn up and following closely behind her will do the trick! 

Once you feel like you can cross safely, get the scoop from Pam Mandel's article Going Underground at the Cu Chi Tunnels on the tour you can take through the Cu Chi tunnels, which were used by the National Liberation Front during the Vietnam War. Pretty eerie, but definitely an interesting way to learn more about the history of the period, and the different battle tactics used during the Vietnam War. 

Remember: Vietnam is a Theme for Everywhere 05, so if you've been there recently and have a great story to share, tell us about it here! 

(Photo: Commuting Hour, by Angus Maclaurin.)