Suitcase magazine #2

Suitcase IN STYLE Pack your bags!

3 TRAVEL 50 lbs. suitcase limit. No problem.

Learn tips and tricks to pack light and still look fashionable.

OF A TRAVEL JUNKIE 9 TALES Stories and advice from a college student who has traveled to multiple countries all on a college budget.

OF PLANES 101 11 HISTORY Over 40,000 flights around the world take off daily. Learn how planes came to be the one of the most widely used forms of transportation.

Suitcase: College knowledge edition

With the summer coming to an end and the academic year quickly approaching most college students are thinking of how little money they will have after bills are paid. This edition proves that with a little creative planning, anyone, even a poor college student can experience travel.

We are proud to feature an article of a college travel junkie that has managed to make her way to numerous countries all on the money scrounged up with part-time jobs. This is the kind of story that we want to share with our readers. Our magazine wants to push everyone to travel.

Even the readers eating roman every night can still budget enough to jump on a plane and experience the wonders that come with new cultures, foreign friends, and breath-taking sights.

Before you pack your bags make sure to check out our article on packing tips. I know I’m a perpetual stuff-mybags kind of packer. This chique how-to article gives advice on how to pack cute wardrobe all in a carry on bag!

I started this magazine after realizing a dream of mine: to travel to every country before I die. Now this may seem like a reach but I’m getting there one step at a time. Though my steps may be small they are persistant and I know that by the time I’m old and wrinkly I will be the best and most interesting person in the room because I experienced everything that I could. I will reach my dream on day. I hope that all you other wonderlusters reach your travel dreams as well. Safe travels.

Sarah Zinnel

Sarah Zinnel, EDITOR-IN CHIEF

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TRAVEL IN STYLE Pack your bags!

50 lbs. suitcase limit. No problem. Learn tips and tricks to pack light and still look fashionable.

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TALES OF A TRAVEL JUNKIE Stories and advice from a college student who has traveled to multiple countries all on a college budget.

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HISTORY OF PLANES 101 Over 40,000 flights around the world take off daily. Learn how planes came to be one of the most widely used forms of transportation.

Travel in style.

Packing to travel is hard.

You have to find the right mix between cute and comfortable. To make it worse...it needs to be done in 50 lbs. or less. These next few pages will show how to easily pack for that week long or month long vacation in a breeze.

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Chose a color pallet.

It doesn’t need to be all black. Stick with neutrals and add a color, such as blue, for a pop. By using neutrals you can mix and match outfits so you can wear pieces multiple times over the course of the trip. Neutrals also make more outfit choices possible because everything matches.

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Think Feet.

You may want to bring 5 pairs of heels, but are you even going to need one? Think how much you will be walking around and that not every country has paved roads. All the shoes shown here are cute and functional.

Black ankle heels- $94 office.co.uk

Black Ballea Flat- $65 loefflerrandall.com

Prevent Wrinkles.

Nothing is more unfortunate than packing clothes, getting to your destination, and then having wrinkles. To prevent this try packing your clothes by rolling them. If rolled correctly, this is actually a space saver too. Also, try rolling clothes in tissue paper. This helps to prevent wrinkles from setting in.

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Accessorize.

When traveling you might run into the problem of wearing the same clothes. A new hat or necklace could give a whole new vibe to a reused outfit. Look below at how using any of the accessories could give the dress differentiations in the style and wearability.

Right Patterned Headbands- $12 etsy.com

Left Cate Jersey TShirt Dress- $165 net-a-porter.com

Tribal Infinity Scarf- $32 littleminnowdesigns

Brass Armband- $23 pintrest.com

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Culturally Appropraite.

You’d think with short shorts and crop-tops being in all the fashion magazines that you should pack them to stay in with the trends. Just watch out! Some countries and areas in the world requre strict dress code requirements. Look up where you are going before you pack your mini shirt.

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Count your days.

Count how many days you are there. Give yourself that many clothes options, plus that one or two outfits you can’t decide between taking! You don’t need to pack a months worth of clothes for a one week trip. See below how you can then even see what pieces you can wear again.

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Cavas Backpack- $78 icanvasbags.storeenvy.com

Bag it.

Saddle Leather Luggage Tag- $10 Pottery Barn

Tag it.

Drag it.

15” Signature Travel Suitcase- $118 Unique Vintage

Odette Salvaged Canvas Tote- $100 Made from a vintage military cover In Odette stores only

Traveling means luggage.

Try using items that are both practical and functional. See above bags to use as a carry on. To the left are cute luggage tags so you won’t lose your stuff. See below suitcases that will be easy to spot at the luggage pick up!

26” Heys Journey Spinner- $145 Heys.com

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Go Far, Go New, Go Now:

The Wisdom of a College Travel Junkie By: Sarah Zinnel As a college student, I understand how little money is left after bills are paid, food is bought, rent is turned in, and that isn’t even touching on extras like eating out so you don’t have to do dishes.

Honestly, the thought of having money to travel for most students is just a nice thought that flitters through now and again when they are procrastinating studying for a test or are dreaming about what lies ahead in the future. Most students generally don’t consider going to a foreign country. According to NAFSA only about 283,332 U.S. students studied abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year. However, after working in the study abroad at the University of Iowa I want to spread a message:

Go FAR, GO NEW, GO NOW- It’s possible!

Now for those of you still reading this article, I want you to know that no I am not crazy and no I am not telling you that it will free. What I am saying is that thanks to globalization and growing necessity of experience with foreign cultures, colleges and college-based organizations want students to spend time learning about foreign nations, learning new languages, and learning the business ettiquette of non-U.S. locations. They are actually working with students to make it possible. With the right amount of will, going abroad is not just a possibility it is happening.

In regards to why my credibility in this matter is even relevant I have been able to visit over seven countries while paying minimal amounts. Almost every time I traveled, I had my flight and housing covered. Better yet, I was able to pay for everything out of pocket with a side job I picked up during college. How did I manage this feat? I looked for opportunities. Not just through the study abroad office on the University of Northern Iowa Campus where I attended school. I looked further.

I first started traveling through Camp Adventure. Camp Adventure is a youth programs centered organization that works with U.S. military bases across the globe to provide Camp Counselors and Lifeguards for the children of those in the service. I entered the program utilizing my lifeguarding skills, and was able to be stationed in Iwakuni, Japan and Bomberg, Germany with my flight paid for, my housing arranged, and a stipend to spend while abroad.

My experience in this program can be described as nothing less than fantastic. I was able to not only help our country in my own way, but I was working during the weekdays and traveling on the weekends. I knew that I wasn’t breaking the bank and yet here I was in a foreign country. I climbed Mt. Fuji in Tokyo, Japan.

I stood on both sides of the Berlin Wall in Germany, I prayed in temples, explored catacombs, ate too much, slept too little, and make life-long friends. Even trudging from sheer exhaustion after

Image from Stromboli. An active volcano that rests near Lipari, Italy.

Myself and some friends about to walk up the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan.

Representing my college at the Coliseum in Rome, Italy

A picture I took of the Berlin wall.

Kintai bridge that leads up to a castle in the mountains in Iwakuni, Japan.

walking 8 hours couldn’t stop my feet from wanted to keep going to one knew all the right food places to go to, the people to talk to about getting us special tours, and had connections so we could even help with an more landmark before we stopped for the day.

From the time I stepped into foreign soil I was hooked on travel. I archeology expedition. This was the type of experience some college stuquickly realized that I would be totally content for the rest of my life dents shy away from because they don’t want the restraints of a professor to just live out of a suitcase, as long as I could wake up every day to see and class work when they are traveling. That isn’t the case. Most of the and hear things that took my breath away. I didn’t want to be the person students who went on the trip were excited that there was school work.

It was a way to document what was learned who looked in magazine at the top 10 vacations spots to go for vacation. I wanted to be the per- “I was able to pay for every- and acted as a diary for the trip.

My next trip will hopefully be comson who took those pictures and showed my thing out of pocket with a side ing up soon. I’m graduating from college but friends the top 10 countries that I went to.

Even though I loved Camp Adventure, the job I picked up during college.” still looking for those opportunities that will allow me to travel cheap. I’ve already thought program places you on a military base, you about Au Pairing in New Zealand through don’t necessarily get to chose. I ended up being placed in Japan again and I wanted a new country to explore. This is Dream Au Pair. I also know of a friend who went to Korea to teach when found my way into the University of Northern Iowa’s study abroad English. There are also volunteer opportunities through Peace Corps. center. Amazingly enough, they were looking for students with travel However, because Peace Corps require a large time commitment there experience to plan trips for their short term programs. Long story short, are also programs like WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities of Organic I applied as a program assistant and got the job. This meant that I could Farms) where in exchange for manual labor you can receive housing and assist in planning an education class abroad and have my flight and oth- food. er expenses paid for on the trip. As a program assistant, I worked six-ten I don’t have a large bank account. I don’t have friends who push me hours a week emailing foreign establishments and preparing contracts. into traveling, I don’t even have a lot of connections in foreign countries.

Though the work was tiring, I gained so much great work experience. I What I do have: determination. I realized in college that my dream was have used this experience in every single job interview that I have been to travel. I have made a promise to myself to always pursue this dream no matter what. It won’t make me rich but I know that I won’t regret a in.

This trip was just as satisfying as my other trip even though I was a single dollar spent because I enjoyed every second of the journey. responsible chaperone for twenty college students the entire time. Also, having a professor along was a great way to have a free tour guide. He

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History of

August 14, 1901 Gustave Whitehead supposedly flew a engine-powered plane for the first time in his Number 21 Monoplane.

1912 Heinrich Kubis was Germany’s (and the world’s) first flight attendant.

Jan. 1, 1914 St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line flown by Tony Jannus became the first passengered flight carrying Abram C. Pheil, former mayor of St. Petersburg.

1960s Airport security was first intro

1903 Wright Brothers first successful flight using their patented three-axis control to steer the plane.

1969 The first larger passenger jets are made carrying more than the previous 10 person limit.

1937 Jet engines were designed by Britain’s France’s Frank Whittle and Germany’s Hans van Ohain.

Planes 101 2014

April 2001

Three million passengers use airplanes daily world-wide.

The Global Hawk flew from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled. This is the longest point-to-point flight ever undertaken by an unmanned aircraft taking 23 hours and 23 minutes.

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October 2003 The first totally autonomous flight across the Atlantic by a computer-controlled model aircraft occurred.

1986 Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew an aircraft, the Rutan Voyager, around the world unrefuelled, and without landing.

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