Tag Archives: travel

the enchanted grotto

Under the rich soil of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, magic has created its own enchanted forest made of lime and stone. The Luray Caverns for centuries have been a place of natural beauty that shocks and awes all who descent underground to step into a world painted by the nature…click here for the full article published in […]

into the woods

Around the time the Romans built the Pantheon, a seed fell on the rich soil of Northern California. From it grew a sprout, a tiny trunk, a twig, a branch, a mighty giant. About 2000 years after gravity called, the Hyperion is defying the earth voice and reaching for the sky, trying to touch heaven […]

home of bourbon, land of horses

Kentucky was built on horses. So the first night in the Bluegrass State, zzzzzzz’s are produced on the soft pillows of the former Coppin’s Department Store. Copppin’s was founded with money made by a race horse called Knowledge. These days it has been transformed into boutique Hotel Covington. But before sleep hits the fan, a […]

summertimmmmme

Not one, not two, not three, four, five….but six articles by journeylism.nl are featured in the ‘summer is finally here’ edition of AmericA Magazine that hits shelves and doormats on June 18, 2019. From Alberta, Canada to Rapid City, South Dakota. From Tampa, Florida to Kentucky and (take me home, country roads) West Virginia with […]

american foetball

In the golden age of American soccer, the world’s most famous players roamed the baseball-field-turned-into-soccer-pitches around the US. They were not necessary the best anymore since Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Best and all those other stars were in the twilight of their career. When their light faded, night fell over professional soccer. Some 3 decades or so […]

winter is coming

Winter is coming, as is the new AmericA Magazine. Journeylism.nl contributes three new stories to this issue. Hair the musical is featured in the American Songbook column. Patrick Amiot – or better his art – stars in 24/7 Junk Art and the ‘only in America’ Maryland Renaissance Festival takes you back a few centuries in […]

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 […]