Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White


Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White
Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Romance on the road brief but leaves long-lasting memories

Jared Downing • February 14, 2012

I had a little tryst in India. Her name was Alex, one of three German girls on leave from a volunteer stint in the South. The four of us blasted around Rajasthan as fast as we could, spending each night...

Worth searching for: Looking for an old friend

Worth searching for: Looking for an old friend

Jared Downing • January 26, 2012

Leave it to a woman to come between best friends. We’d been through some tough scrapes, my passport and I. I’d written its number on so many visa forms and hostel ledgers I knew it by heart. It was...

Personalized Packing: Travel the world like Frodo Baggins

Jared Downing • December 1, 2011

I met a few German hitchhikers in southern Mexico. They were the talk of the hostel, tramping all the way from New York to Patagonia with nothing but backpacks, some clever couch surfing and their charming...

Trip abroad inspires new student group

Trip abroad inspires new student group

Rebecca Howard • October 17, 2011

After witnessing children fight with baboons for food, experiencing the corruption of government and developing relationships with citizens, one student returned from Zimbabwe ready to make a difference....

How to haggle like Clint Eastwood

How to haggle like Clint Eastwood

Jared Downing • October 5, 2011

When most people think of haggling on the road, they see something out of “Casablanca:” dingy market stalls packed with hookahs and brass pocket watches and manned by toothless shysters. This is pretty...

Guatemala is the college student’s Costa Rica

Jared Downing • September 22, 2011

Guatemala’s Cahabón River flows down the tiny valley of Semuc Champey like a shotgun slug. The streams from the valley fall into seven cascading pools of turquoise, so still you can hear the monkeys...

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