The Vagabonds
The Founding Vagabonds
Collins Paris
A twenty-two year old dude currently living in Chicago. A professional dabbler; film maker, student, photographer, web designer, writer, t-shirt designer/printer, graphic designer, and most important, traveler.
Collins is moving to Seattle as soon as he tosses his cap.
Collins finds himself lost in an ongoing race which he escapes through travel and any means of self expression. Recently, that race has led him to the creation of FleetFlicks, a new venue designed to promote the over-looked art of the short film, as well as provide a space for up-and-coming filmmakers to showcase their art.
Vagabond Bible Work: Web Master, Senior Writer, Editor.
See all of Collins’ Vagabond Bible articles.
Joey Pizzolato
Joey is a graduate of DePaul University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in creative writing. He has traveled to Japan, Peru, Mexico, Korea, Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands, amongst many cities and states within the United States. When he’s not traveling, he enjoys reading, writing fiction, photography, and good company.
He has worked as the fiction editor for the 2008 & 2009 issues of Threshold: DePaul’s Journal of Literary, Audio, and Visual Arts, and his articles have been published in the magazine AREA–Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review and is forthcoming in Cantaraville.
He currently lives in Chicago, IL. His future travel plans involve mini-tour of Europe, starting in London and proceeding through Paris and Amsterdam before he lands in Prague, where he will stay for a month and participate in a fiction workshop and a photography course.
Joey also serves as the Associate Editor for FleetFlicks.com with Collins.
Vagabond Bible Work: Writer, Editor.
See all of Joey’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Jake Schintgen
A Chicago native, Jake met the other vagabonds while living in the Kansai area of Japan. With interests in financial freedom, self expression, sustainable development and, above all else: travel. He can think of nothing better than documenting his adventures across the globe in good company.
Vagabond Bible Work: Writer, Editor.
See all of Jake’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Contributing Vagabonds
Sébastien Lavandon
Born in Normandy, Sebastien got the opportunity to live in Japan for some time. It was through this experience that he came to appreciate the cultural eccentricities around the world. Living overseas also infected him with the travel virus–that ever present need to be in another place and on the move.
Sebastien currently lives in Paris, France where he plots new plans abroad. In his free time, he loves riding orange bicycles around the world as much as he can. He speaks French and English, and knows enough German and Japanese to get around.
See all of Sebastien’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Cody McGuire
Cody is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. While working towards his Business degree, he got the opportunity to stay a short while in Spain, then took some time traveling around Ireland, England, and Switzerland.
While traveling to different countries, Cody discovered his passion for the unknown and realized that there are no ordinary moments. An aspiring writer and film lover, Cody has a passion for the arts and different cultures.
He believes the best way to enjoy life is to find new experiences that will change his view of the world, and hopes to be traveling to faraway places sooner rather than later.
See all of Cody’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Lindsay Sena
Confined to the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, Lindsay fell in love with travel at a young age when her grandparents would steal her away to Europe during the summers.
During these family vacations she spent time in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece and Egypt. Although she spent six months studying in London, her favorite city remains Paris.
As a senior English and European Studies Major at the University of Notre Dame, Lindsay spends her days dreaming of exotic places and searching for travel-related ways to postpone the real world. In her free time, she enjoys seeing films, cooking, and writing.
See all of Lindsay’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Beau Scott
A small-town Indiana boy who never really left home, Beau finally decided to venture out on his own when he was 26. He now works as an elementary school teacher, setting up his base of operations in London, and traveling to various destinations in Europe.
Beau has lost his passport on a flight to Spain, snuck into two countries, been deported from one, and is now currently living on the Thames River. Big changes for a boy who grew up in a cornfield.
See all of Beau’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Quentin Dechery
The Vagabonds met Quentin in their own various ways in 2005, while they attended undergraduate studies at DePaul University. In 2007, he traveled to Japan with Jake to study abroad, and became the channel through which the three founders would eventually come together.
He currently lives in Minnesota with his new born daughter. The Vagabonds look forward to the day when he will be back traveling with them again. Until then, they are content with buying him campy parenting books and baby clothes.
See all of Q’s Vagabond Bible articles.
Susan Fox & Rylan Thompson
Susan Fox is a thirty year old professional backpacker and artist, born and raised in Chicago. She has backpacked most of the US,Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and parts of South America, and Asia. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown her work across the country.
Rylan Thompson is a thirty year old illustrator from Chicago–raised in Trinidad, Egypt, and Kenya–he caught the traveling bug early. He has recently traveled most of the US, Peru, Argentina, Taiwan and Thailand. Rylan has a BFA from Northern Illinois and has participated in shows in New York and Chicago. He has just completed a short comic titled ‘Birthday Bees” and will be working on a new comic while traveling.
Rylan and Susan were married November 28, 2009, and have decided against spending their wedding gifts on silly things like a down payment for a house and new sheets. They would rather spend it on a whirlwind backpacking trip around the globe.
