Tag Archives: history

ghosts in the desert

“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]

philadelphi-yeah!

History, art, culture, nature, food, hiking, biking, rafting, city tripping and so, so much more is part of the DNA of Philly and its countryside. From the snow dusted Pocono Mountains to the foodporn of ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’ to the rolling hills that gave birth to the United States army to the streets […]

50 shades of black

History built a home on Washington’s National Mall where monuments and museums are windows into the United States’ past. It took until september of 2016 to complete this ‘house’. Then an architectural gem openend its doors to tell a dark tale but also show what a centuries long struggle has given a nation that took […]

the neon boneyard

La Concha was one of the main attractions of the old Vegas. Of the Sin City era when one-arm-bandits spewed out silver quarters, the mob played Russian roulette with the law and of which Sinatra’s Rat Pack sang the soundtrack. That ‘good old time’ is no more. She has been blown up with dynamite and […]

america magazine #2 2017

The summer edition of America Magazine – an Elvis special – hit the stores including four articles by journeylism.nl which are now available online in the publication section of journeylism.nl in September. The topics of the four articles are American Songbook – Michael Jackson, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, The Mission District in San Francisco and Las Vegas’ […]

highlights of honshu

Travel through the ancient, mystical empire of Japan and discover the island of Honshu from Tokyo to Tono Valley in the north to Hiroshim in the south with this offline Favoroute app written by journeylism.nl. The app includes day activities, highlights, architecture and design, kaiseki food and temple stays. Written in Dutch this app is a […]

memento mori

No better anger management than taking down a statue or two. Many in Egypt, Iraq , the French Revolution and 16th century Calvinist Netherlands will agree on this. So when the wall came down and the iron curtain opened the people of post-communist Eastern Europe did just that: taking down a statue or two. Fortunately, […]