Ben Trevayne Articles
Bonus Year #7: Dubrovnik, Croatia Updated: September 24, 2001 Dubrovnik, Croatia
We were on the ferry from Dubrovnik, and for the first time in three days the sun was shining. Tom Petty was singing into my ears,
The last three days, the rain was unstoppable it was always cold, no sunshine Yeah I'm runnin' [...]
Ben was raised in Indiana: the heartlands of America and the armpit of the world. At the first opportunity he escaped from the corn field prison of his homeland to go to Rice University in Houston for school. (Anyone from Houston, give him a holler at pmayor@rice.edu). At Rice he is an [...]
Bonus Year #6: Budapest, Hungary Updated: September 17, 2001 Budapest, Hungary
Budapest will never be Budapest for me. If through some twist of fate I move here and spend 20 years in the city, it will not be Budapest. It will be, first and foremost, the place where I heard about the terrorist attack upon the [...]
Updated: September 10, 2001 Two Reasons I Know I am in Budapest
We arrived in Budapest in the early morning and spent much of the day wandering around the cold, overcast city vaguely disappointed. Around six o'clock I was walking along the Pest side of the Danube when I looked up. [...]
Updated: September 8, 2001 Carpathia, Ukraine
The past six days have represented a serious departure from my activities up to this point.
Well before dawn (3am!) on the morning of September 2nd, Paul and I awoke and grabbed a taxi to the Lviv train station. Our destination was Ivano-Frankivsk, [...]
Updated: September 6, 2001 Lviv, Ukraine
Every time I sit down to write about my experiences here, whether for this site or just to friends, it feels like two weeks have elapsed. Only once I start cataloguing everything that's actually happened in my mind do I realize that it's been a matter [...]
August 26, 2001 Kyiv, Ukraine
I spend a lot of time planning my travel. I love to pore over Lonely Planet guides as if they were the bible and I a devout acolyte. I surf the internet, monitor message boards, talk to my friends, and do virtually everything [...]
August 22, 2001 Heathrow Airport, London
It has been a dizzying few days.
One could properly say that things did not go smoothly at first. To begin with, I had failed to do my research properly. Though I had correctly [...]
This past year I received the news. It was amazing. Back in the fall I had casually applied for an all expenses paid scholarship to study at Trinity College, Cambridge for the 2001-2002 school year. I had no particular belief that I would win. So you can imagine my [...]
