Breaking out of Berlin
Posted: August 2nd, 2014 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: Carolyn Beeler, Germany, international, Orange, Story Shuffle 25, travel | No Comments »Listen.
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Erica G’s worst summer of her teenage life turns out OK
Posted: August 28th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: Anniversaries, audio, Erica G, Israel, Philadelphia Folk Festival, stories, Story Shuffle 8, travel | No Comments »
Grad student Erica G was going to go to Israel as a teenager but things didn’t work out. This is the story of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Folk Festival instead.
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Christopher Wink hitchhiking in South Dakota: trusting strangers brings reward and risk
Posted: June 20th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: audio, Christopher Wink, hitchhiking, Road Trips, South Dakota, stories, Story Shuffle 7, travel | 2 Comments »
Journalist Christopher Wink tells the story of his first hitchhiking experience in South Dakota.
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Andrew Thompson on anti-Semitic Kiwis
Posted: June 17th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: Andrew Thompson, anti-Semitic, audio, New Zealand, Road Trips, stories, Story Shuffle 7, travel | 1 Comment »
Temple Law student Andrew Thompson talks about anti-Semitic sentiment in New Zealand.
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Josh Rothstein takes a bicycle trip from Tokyo to Kyoto
Posted: June 16th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: audio, bicycles, foreign languages, Japan, Josh Rothstein, Kyoto, Road Trips, stories, Story Shuffle 7, Tokyo, travel | No Comments »
Philadelphia school teacher Josh Rothstein takes a bicycle ride from Tokyo to Kyoto and is a better man for it.
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Emma Fred-Cassorla goes a bit too south
Posted: June 14th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: audio, Emma Fried-Cassorla, Mexico, Road Trips, Story Shuffle 7, travel | No Comments »
Penn researcher Emma Fred-Cassorla once took a road trip that went farther south than expected.
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Story Shuffle 7: ROAD TRIPS in South Philadelphia
Posted: June 13th, 2011 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: audio, Holly Otterbein, Rachel Playe, Road Trips, Story Shuffle 7, travel | No Comments »
Story Shuffle 7: Road Trips hit the highway this Saturday, held on a beautiful and later stormy night in the Newbold section of South Philadelphia, hosted by Holly Otterbein.
She and friend Rachel Playe kicked off the night with readings from Kerouac. Listen to that below. As usual, all the stories will run here, one a day in the night’s order.
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Terror: Alex Irwin talks about the terrors of Irish horseback riding
Posted: October 7th, 2010 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: Alex Irwin, horses, Ireland, Story Shuffle 3, Terror, travel | No Comments »
Business publications editor Alex Irwin, who hosted Story Shuffle 3 and provided a robust turkey sausage squash chili, hot apple cider and more, told a story about the terrors of tourism horseback riding in Ireland — but he didn’t press the record button!
It’s lost to time. ..And we’re probably dead to him.
It’s not the first time that happened.
Brian James Kirk recalls a brush in with a teenager and a Tennessee ranger
Posted: August 5th, 2010 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: authority, Brian James Kirk, police, Story Shuffle 2, Tennessee, travel | No Comments »
Brian James Kirk took a road trip with a replacement teenage girl and it led to a run in with a Tennessee National Park ranger.
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Dana Vachon on art school professors and 16 hours of driving
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 | Author: Christopher Wink | Filed under: Stories | Tags: authority, college, Dana Vachon, Jess Victor, Story Shuffle 2, travel | 2 Comments »
Dana Vachon, left, with friend Jess Victor
Dana Vachon, a software company support administrator, talked about receiving pressure from her art school professors at the College of New Jersey, and how it drove her to drive 16 hours to and from a family New Hampshire cabin with some hiccups along the way.
Unfortunately, there were some, uh, technical difficulties with her recording, so it can’t be posted.
Audio from the other six will be posted, once a day, continuing tomorrow.
