Runners Up

• Emily Scrubby wants to take a road trip to Alaska in an RV powered by vegetable oil, and stop at local restaurants for "fuel."
• Colin Woolston would like to spend a year working at an orangutan rehabilitation clinic in Borneo.
• Kristi Rigamonti wants to take a heritage trip to Italy and write a children's book about her grandparents' experience as immigrants.
• Amanda van Scoyoc would like to teach art classes in the Russian orphanage that her two little sisters were adopted from.
• Shoshanna Goldstein would like to cook and garden at a 14th century Italian castle that hosts concerts and art shows.
• Zach Sufrin would like to go on motorcycle trip along the Malay Peninsula from Singapore to Bangkok to raise money for the tsunami and do reconstruction work.
• Yasmeen Turayhi, who just returned from working in Iraq, wants to learn to desert surf in Dubai.
• Kyla, a school teacher in inner city Detroit, wants to spend a summer studying Capoiera dancing in Brazil so she can instruct dance students in the Detroit area.
• Christopher Weaver, a senior at Emory University in Georgia, would like to do a bike trip from Kyrgystan to Tajikstan and document the unknown region.
• Jenni Wahlgreen, a 24-year-old manager of a home for developmentally disabled adults, proposes volunteering at a fine arts school for children and adults with Down syndrome in Mexico City.

Best Road Trip Ideas

• Erin Cox, a senior at Notre Dame, would like to drive across the country doing random acts of kindness. She hopes to brighten people's days in at least twenty cities by paying for stranger's groceries, taking people to movies, and making other spontaneous donations.
• Mark Cross wants tour the country by way of comedy clubs and write a novel based on his adventures. The fellowship committee would like to read this book someday. Mark is funny as hell.
• Katie Marcum would like to paint a mural on the side of an old school bus, take out all of the seats, and bolt down real furniture for a road trip to California.
• Morgan Kinney of Montana wants to go on a road trip where there are no roads! His proposal is called, "A Boy, a Dog, and a Pickup Truck. Out to Conquer the Canyonlands!"
• Jennifer Kessler would like to take a road trip to "chase childhood across the country." Her journey would involve a lot of juvenile behavior, and she would leave the driving to her "adult chaperone" so she could stick her head out of the window and eat candy.
• Four seniors at Gettysburg College would like to drive a "Delay the Real World Caravan" across the U.S. and rescue Americans from the 9-5 grind so they can join the journey!

Best World Travel Ideas

• Kelly Grzasko, a young painter from Pennsylvania, wants to travel the world to paint endangered species, including Arabian camels, South American Jaguars, and African Hippos, in their natural habitats.
• Joshua Shrager, who just broke up with his girlfriend, would like to take a global trip in search of love. He plans to stop in Venice, the city of love, Casablanca, home of the greatest love movie, and India, birthplace of Kama Sutra.
• Kristen Matthews, a stewardess for Frontier Airlines, proposes that she actually gets off the plane and sees the world! She wants to do the Mt. McKinley Glacier tour, then do a 25-mile bike ride on the Alaskan coast, then visit the Turquoise Waters in Hawaii, then visit an aunt in Spain….
• Jenn Onofrio, who teaches job readiness to inmates at Rikers Island, proposes an around-the-world trip to observe foreign prison models.
• Elizabeth Cornelius wants to incorporate physical challenges into her travels through Europe, including hiking the highest mountain in Germany, biking through Holland for the Tulip Festival, running the Frankfurt Marathon, and more.

Most… Uh, Unique!

• Moshe Marvit from Pennsylvania wants to work with a bee farmer in Croatia and travel with him to a Greek island to test this next year's honey.
• Sanjay Vora would like to produce a cowbell musical in Switzerland.
• Michael Vichiarelli wants to venture to the great Barrier Reef in Australia to get over his lifelong fear of sharks by going cage diving with Great Whites.
• Gloria Rosen, a graduating senior in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wants to make a documentary with her college roommates about hunting for Sasquatch in the Northwestern States.
• Leeza Schaul wants to leave her 9-5 grind, move to Cyprus, and work as a barmaid in one of the most popular discos in the country
• Lisa Beiswenger would like to go on a walking tour of England to photograph lawn gnomes.

Nice Try But…

• Aaron Stewart, of Irvine, California, would like to delay the real world by remaining in college and "waking up at the crack of noon every day."
• Matthew Fried would like to spend all $2,500 on one hand of black jack in Las Vegas. If he loses, he'll join the real world. If he wins, he'll gamble all summer long and donate winnings back to the fellowship fund.
• Glenn Schenk would like to do an internship at the Playboy mansion, where he can learn from the master, Hugh Hefner.
• Bill Pertier of Illinois proposes a fellowship project called, "Hooters and Highways." On his cross-country road trip, Bill will stop at every Hooters and enjoy the chicken strips.