You don’t have to have the same story of that travel blogger you follow — you know, the one that gave up their corporate lifestyle or long term lawyering gig, traded in all of their belongings, and set out with a one way ticket to see the world on their own. You get to write[…]
Would you let someone take off driving on the Interstate if she hadn’t yet driven around the block? Of course not, because driving takes practice, right? So does developing the confidence to travel well and safely. It’s likely you started with riding a bike to the park, or school. You eventually they graduated to day[…]
As we’re ramping up with the 2018 Travel Access Project Grant recipients, planning away for their adventures next year, we’re simultaneously winding down with last year’s students who are finishing up their travels. Michelle Zhang recorded this video for us as part of the Gap Year Association Voices Project. As she’s recording it, she’s chugging[…]
We are pleased and excited to announce our next TAP grant recipient! This week we share with you a glimpse of who H??ng Uyên Bùi is in her own words. H??ng Uyên Bùi Dear Mom, I have never made you unsatisfied, at school, I always make my best effort to become the best student[…]
It’s the final week of August and we are pleased to send it off with an introduction and congratulations to Aleah Cordoba for being chosen as a member of the first cohort of TAP grant recipients! Aleah Cordoba Recently, I discovered that when I was three years old, for uncertain reasons, my mother sent[…]
This week we are introducing Filip Carnogursky and congratulating him on his admittance into the first cohort of TAP grant recipients! Filip Carnogursky Filip Carnogursky is just a regular ginger guy from a beautiful little village in Slovakia, where, when mentioned the word ‘gap-year’ (which doesn’t even have a direct translation), an avalanche of[…]
Continuing on with our weekly winners we would like to introduce and congratulate April Lawson, recipient of TAP grant and member of cohort 1! April Lawson I spend my days dreaming; I spend my nights living my dreams. Who is April T. Lawson, you ask? Well, I’m still on the journey of figuring that out[…]