… the places you get. the places that stick in your heart.Tumblr (3.0; @wanderbooks)http://wanderlove.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxhlaJuQ01r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Lost Valley, Arkansas ~ </strong>Kate Hart</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/20354452930http://wanderlove.com/post/20354452930Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:55:44 -0700placesarkansassubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s6jaqgZO1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Near Big Four Mountain, Snohomish County, Washington</strong>: I could not stop staring at this ice cave. I’d read warnings online before doing this hike that several years ago, a few people were killed in an avalanche in this cave. Along the hike were signs warning not to go in. But there was no fence, nothing to stop me from doing it. The blackness was hypnotizing. . ~ <em>Michelle Schusterman</em>, travel writer & author of I HEART BAND</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/20293583413http://wanderlove.com/post/20293583413Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:00:05 -0700placeswashingtonmichelle schusterman<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxhwdLnaX1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Cornmarket Street, Oxford, England:</strong> Antique and modern and something unexpected around every corner. ~<a href="http://kdhart.tumblr.com/"><em>Kate Hart</em></a></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/20175250131http://wanderlove.com/post/20175250131Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:00:05 -0700placesenglandoxfordkate hartsubmission<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s6hcFTz61r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Someplace near the border of Utah/Arizona</strong>: We took a dirt road off another road off the highway, ignored a few warning signs, endured the bumpiest 20 minutes in the history of driving, climbed a small rock, found this view, and were literally stunned into silence. I’d never seen landscape in these colors before (sans Photoshopping). ~ <em>Michelle Schusterman</em>, travel writer & author of I HEART BAND</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19958196604http://wanderlove.com/post/19958196604Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:06 -0700placesutaharizonamichelle schusterman<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s5ovH3yD1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><span>This is Wright’s Lake in the <strong>Sierra Nevada</strong>—crystal clear lake and the channels winding through the encroaching meadow. Even people who come to fish end up leaning over the side, trailing a hand through the water and watching their shadow play on the sandy bottom, rather than dropping a line in. ~ </span>Angelica R. Jackson,<br/><a href="http://angelicarjackson.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><a href="http://angelicarjackson.blogspot.com">http://angelicarjackson.blogspot.com</a></a></div></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19914090128http://wanderlove.com/post/19914090128Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:00:06 -0700placessierra nevada<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxhja8Dgk1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Petit Jean State Park, Arkansa</strong>s ~ Josh Hart</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19899865588http://wanderlove.com/post/19899865588Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:05 -0700placesarkansassubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s6deVed51r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Oysterville, Washington</strong>: I visited the <a href="http://matadornetwork.com/trips/the-last-oyster-station-in-oysterville/" target="_blank">last oyster station in Oysterville</a> last spring. I think the reason this place left a strong impression on me was how much it reminded me of where I grew up – New Orleans. Washington and Louisiana are by no means similar states, but something about the salty smell of shellfish in the air, the swamp-like look of the oyster beds, the run-down equipment and hardworking fisherman…it was like finding home in an unexpected place. ~ <em>Michelle Schusterman</em>, travel writer & author of I HEART BAND</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19835228248http://wanderlove.com/post/19835228248Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:00:06 -0700placesoystervillemichelle schusterman<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s6b3HleW1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Cannon Beach, Oregon</strong>: The impression this place left on me was created by two admittedly superficial reasons. One, look at that GIANT ROCK. In the ocean! It just looks cool. And two, this is where The Goonies was filmed! That aside, this was also the first night of a week-long road trip through Oregon with some great friends. This photo gives me that awesome first-day-of-a-trip-life-is-rad feeling every time I see it. ~ <em>Michelle Schusterman</em>, travel writer & author of I HEART BAND</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19677745843http://wanderlove.com/post/19677745843Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:00:05 -0700placesoregonmichelle schusterman<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s62wDhbd1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div>There is a small cafe in my town that is set into the woods, almost as if it’s contained in its own private world. When you exit the cafe building, steps lead down to a clearing with a few tables and chairs and fairy lights strung throughout the trees. The two steps beyond the clearing, and it’s a straight drop down into a valley landscape of trees and woods and who knows what beyond. Coming here to read makes the literary escape all the more visceral because I can feel the wonder of my own life colliding with that of the characters whose minds I’m temporarily visiting.</div> <div></div> <div>I couldn’t hope to capture the aura of this space with a mere photo, but here’s to hoping you’ve found your own spot that makes the joy of reading all the greater. ~ <br/><div><em>Samantha Reichle</em></div> </div></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19630898066http://wanderlove.com/post/19630898066Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:00:06 -0700places<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s5xaZxuM1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is a photo of me hiking back in 2008. The area is the <strong>Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area in South Carolina</strong>.~<em><span class="gD"> Kara Malinczak</span></em></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19591520616http://wanderlove.com/post/19591520616Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:05:05 -0700placessouth carolina<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzd73um0lv1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="caption"> <p><strong><a href="http://wanderlove.com/post/17549467098/a-wanderlove-welcome">Wanderlove places</a>: </strong>The Mayan ruins of <strong>Tikal</strong> are some of Latin America’s best-preserved. Though they’re stunning at any time of day, they’re most spectacular at sunrise – especially from atop Tikal’s highest temple. A picture of Tikal in a travel pamphlet is what prompts Bria to choose Central America in the first place.</p> <p><em>photo by kirsten hubbard</em></p> </div>http://wanderlove.com/post/19577043577http://wanderlove.com/post/19577043577Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:00:05 -0700wanderlovewanderlove placestikalplacestravel<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0gkwsqx2q1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is a picture taken on <strong>Giglio</strong>, an Italian island. It’s been on the news recently because there has been a stupid accident with a ship quite close to the island and now its beautiful nature is in danger, which makes me very sad. I have problems with depression and when I visited the island in my final year of grammar school with some of my friends, I could finally breathe again - which was such a fascinating experience, I could cry thinking about it. Now the island and it’s beautiful nature remind me to take chances, that life is short but also that everyone, even people with problems like me, can experience completely joyful moments. This is why I hope to return to Giglio somewhen and that it’s nature can be saved as best as possible from this catastrophe.</p> <p>(If you don’t know the island, I have to tell you that this ship accident is really tragic for Giglio because it is an island that tried to secure its nature by keeping tourism away and preventing too much human activity on its land. - I went there with my biology course to study the sea and its animals, you see.) ~<em> Lena Böse</em></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19526160672http://wanderlove.com/post/19526160672Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:00:05 -0700placesGiglioitalysubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ftrxfX6R1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Not the greatest picture ever but I took this when I went back to Fiji almost three years ago. It was taken from a stone I used to sit on during the days I felt that the island was too small and my world too constricting. I would sit there and gaze off in the distance, look at the mountains and dream about the world that I wanted to see. ~ <a href="http://peachesandkimchi.tumblr.com/">peachesandkimchi</a></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19509248502http://wanderlove.com/post/19509248502Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:00:05 -0700placesfijisubmission<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0f93uH4951r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amazing beauty</p> <p>Crystal blue water sparkles</p> <p>enriches my soul</p> <p><em>~ Erin Fitzpatrick-Bjorn</em> at <a href="http://kiddingaroundphotography.com">http://kiddingaroundphotography.com</a> & <a href="http://westorientbooksblog.blogspot.com">http://westorientbooksblog.blogspot.com</a></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19468382261http://wanderlove.com/post/19468382261Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:05:06 -0700placessubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgbv1ydzi1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p> <strong>Table champetre de la Ferme au gout d’autrefois, Île d’Orléans, Québéc</strong>: It’s the person more than the place that’s permanently etched into my memory here. That man, farmer and chef Jacques Legros, is quite possibly the most impressive man I’ve ever met. He and his wife single-handedly run a goose, chicken, and duck farm, an amazing garden, and a restaurant. No farmhands, no waiters. They grow the food, they harvest it, they prepare it, they pour your wine and set down your plate and sit down at the table with you to chat. Mindblowing. ~<a href="http://michelleschusterman.com/"><em>Michelle Schusterman</em></a>, travel writer & MG author of I Heart Band</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19453042734http://wanderlove.com/post/19453042734Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:00:05 -0700placesmichelle schustermanquebec<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzd71bRlcM1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="caption"> <p><strong><a href="http://wanderlove.com/post/17549467098/a-wanderlove-welcome">Wanderlove places</a>: Flores</strong> is a colonial village in northern Guatemala, set on an island in Lake Petén Itza. It’s the beginning of the end of Bria’s trip – and where she discovers the truth about Rowan.</p> <p><em>photo by kirsten hubbard</em></p> </div>http://wanderlove.com/post/19404397034http://wanderlove.com/post/19404397034Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:07:06 -0700wanderlovewanderlove placestravelfloresplaces<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m083xxYKpR1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Mines View Park, Baguio City, Philippines:</strong> Photographer was absolutely terrified to stand on top of a mountain while taking this photograph (aka me). ~ <em><a href="http://lowreal.tumblr.com/">lowreal</a> </em></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19395974081http://wanderlove.com/post/19395974081Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:37:06 -0700placesphilippinessubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0s5qxXE1f1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m not a city girl— far from it— so when I got the opportunity to visit <strong>China</strong>, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. Amidst a torrent of new experiences (including visiting the must-see tourist places), there was one simple night I spent walking opposite the skyline of Shanghai, and it is one that I’ll never forget. Standing on the opposite shore, surrounded by beautiful bright lights, city noise, and people, I remember thinking “this is where I’d want to fall in love.” And ever since then, it owns a little piece of my heart. ~Audrey, <a href="http://holes-in-my-brain.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">holes-in-my-brain.blogspot.com</a></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19364536350http://wanderlove.com/post/19364536350Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:06 -0700placeschina<p>winners of my signed WANDERLOVE giveaway are:</p> <p><a href="http://mismikadocreations.com/">Sebrina Schultz</a><br/><a href="http://poststudyabroad.tumblr.com/">poststudyabroad</a><br/>and<br/><a href="http://shimmerlikegold.tumblr.com/">Cialina</a></p> <p>Thank you SO MUCH for entering, everyone &#8212; and keep submitting your photos!</p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19351238154http://wanderlove.com/post/19351238154Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:14:30 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m080lv3cVk1r5tv19o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>from <a href="http://christyluis.tumblr.com/">christyluis</a></p>http://wanderlove.com/post/19349042814http://wanderlove.com/post/19349042814Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:13:06 -0700placessubmission