We are a community driven magazine and only volunteers are behind everything we do. Our server-space, the forthcoming print-editions and other costs are covered by donations. The current volunteers are here to set up the basis for a hopefully long-...
Hitchhiking isn't the only form of traveling that we cover at Random Roads. We rather talk about the broader concept of being nomadic and "Free Fall Travel", a way of traveling...
We were driving north on the North Island of New Zealand, entering the Waipoua Forest that houses the largest kauri trees in the world, when we first spotted these interesting looking backpackers along the road. We were going to give them a ride...
I have just flown from Barcelona to Amsterdam in 60 000 kilos of steel speeding through the sky. It took three hours. When I boarded, it was 28 degrees, when I arrived at my destination: 13 degrees.
My eyes, my skin, my clothes, were all very used...
Tom wrote Hand to Mouth to India in 1997/8 at the age of 20. It tells of the journey he made hitchhiking from England to India with no money. He was full of the tales of the East where sadhus, sufis and mystics trust themselves to the Fates and...