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Welcome to the Summer Program and Teen Travel Blog !
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH, THE BELL JAR

It is our wish to provide you, our valued readers, with engaging and interesting information about the spectacular world around us, and, hopefully, the words you find here will also inspire you to get out, to learn, to live, and above all else, to travel!

The Final Days in Palo Alto

Well, we leave tomorrow, and I’m going to miss everybody at Abbey Road! On Sunday, we went to the Great America theme park. This was one of my favorite excursions! We rode about a million ...

NorCal Done Right: Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco

Leadership Academy students got a break from their academic pursuits to visit the coastal town of Monterey. While the weather did not cooperate and relaxing on the beach was not an option, ...

Classes and Day Trips at Leadership Academy

This week, we started our new class with Camille, who is teaching us about clean water. In the beginning of class, we watched a movie called Flow, which informed us about water systems around ...

Seeing the Sites in Northern California

So far, the program is very interesting. I’m becoming close to all the people in the program as well as learning a lot from our professors. On Thursday, we had a seminar on clean water with ...

The Beauty and Brains of Stanford

When I first arrived at Stanford University, I was nervous, but as soon as I settled in I was eased to realize that everyone was in the same position as me. After only one day, I realized that I ...

Leadership Academy Begins

Hey, this is John. Monday was the first day of the Abbey Road Leadership Academy at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. There are only three guys here at the program, so we became ...

Welcome to Stanford Leadership Academy!

Hello from the beautiful town of Palo Alto! After a long day of traveling, Abbey Road Programs‘ 2013 Leadership Academy at Stanford University has officially begun! The students were given ...

Learning and Living at Stanford University

Hi, my name is John. I’ll be a freshman in high school next fall and will be attending Abbey Road’s Leadership Academy this summer at Stanford University. The main reason I want to attend this ...

My Expectations for a Summer Full of Fun at Abbey Road

To travel with Abbey Road Programs is a great opportunity for anybody, and I am truly blessed to be able to experience it this summer. Stanford has a great campus, and hopefully while on my trip ...

My experience with Abbey Road Programs at Stanford - by Zoe S.

What made you go looking for a summer program like Leadership Academy? Well, I am really interested in politics and different people’s views and opinions. I figured this program would give me ...

by Student, Zoe S. , Virginia