Go! Magazine posted on February 8, 2016 I am a millennial, and I’m in trouble. I and the rest of us born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s—otherwise known as Generation Y—are facing some new challenges. College loan debt, for one, roughly averages $35,000 per student now (depending on the type of school…
Go! Magazine posted on June 25, 2013 Transportation. What exactly does that mean? About nine months ago, my answer to that question would have been a vague, poorly-formed, “Umm, you know, cars and roads and airplanes. Stuff like that!” Little did I know the adventure I was about to embark on, traveling down the different…
Go! Magazine posted on December 20, 2013 Tram time! Thick dense vegetation, trees everywhere, more species of insects, birds, and animals you ever knew existed in one place…you guessed it! It is the rainforest and it is full of adventure! Have you ever wondered how in an animated place such as a rainforest, people move…
Go! Magazine posted on December 20, 2013 Are you planning to brave the heat on a wild desert themed vacation soon? If so, you’re going to need to know the basics. When I say basics I mean, how to do you travel around in all of that sand and dust? Climb aboard, your camel awaits!…
Go! Magazine posted on May 24, 2013 Maybe you have seen some of those old movies where the characters board a train, smoke swirling around the platform, half-concealing the patrons. Those movies make trains look quaint, rather posh, and, frankly, outdated. The idea of trains as being the transportation of a past era is reflected…
Go! Magazine posted on December 19, 2012 As a graduate student at Iowa State University, I commute 3-4 days a week from my home in Boone, IA to campus—a distance of 20 miles roundtrip. This adds up to four or five hours a week on average that I’m in my car, and unable to do any…
Go! Magazine posted on September 20, 2012 Early morning wake-up call I’ve live across the street from the Union Pacific line-hauling depot, in Boone Iowa. When I first moved into the apartment more than a year ago, I barely slept the first few weeks as the constant sound of trains, the slight vibration from the…
Go! Magazine posted on February 10, 2010 For many people driving a car is about freedom—to go where you want, when you want, how you want. More than public transit, you have power over your route, travel times, and what car you drive. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Transit could be about…
Go! Magazine posted on April 7, 2008 When the summer heat is sizzling and pavements are too hot for bare feet, it feels like it could actually work to fry an egg on the street or sidewalk. During the day, pavements can reach 150º F (66º C). The exteriors of buildings heat up too. In…