Hiking up Siberia Valley in Mt Aspiring National Park. The team here at Active Adventures are an outdoorsy bunch. Every weekend you’ll find a handful of us out there in the hills, or on the r…
Multi-day Hiking in New Zealand’s Backcountry, and 8 Reasons Why You Should Go Guided.
Hiking up Siberia Valley in Mt Aspiring National Park The team here at Active Adventures are an outdoorsy bunch. Every weekend you’ll find a handful of us out there in the hills, or on the ri…
Overland Travel: How Ryan Drove from Seattle to South America
I hate driving. I don’t like driving in my own country, let alone foreign ones. It’s not that I’m bad at it. It’s just that I do it so infrequently that it makes me nervous …
30 Photos From Afghanistan That You Won’t See In The News
Traveling in AfghanistanAfghanistanWhat comes to mind when you think about Afghanistan? War? Terrorism? Osama Bin Laden? The Mother Of All Bombs?Sure, much of Afghanistan is still dangerous —…
How Travel Taught Me How to Not Give a F*ck
I vaguely knew about Mark Manson. He was a friend of friends, a fellow blogger, and someone I knew who wrote well researched (and always a little controversial) posts. When he and his wife moved to…
Twenty Four Hours in Pattaya (Without a Prostitute in Sight)
Until I decided to attend Wonderfruit, a festival held in the countryside forty-five minutes outside the city.Okay Wonderfruit, you got me — and more on that festival coming up soon. After we…
Martha’s Vineyard On a Budget — Yes, It’s Possible!
Martha’s Vineyard… on a budget? I admit, it doesn’t sound right. Like Thailand and good bread and cheese, or Brazil and being on time, or England and a reliably sunny weather for…
The Best Travel Gadgets for 2017
In this month’s travel tech column, Dave Dean, our resident travel tech guru, all around cool dude, and found of the tech website Too Many Adapters, rounds up the best travel gadgets for 2017…
The Travel Trio Reunited in Martha’s Vineyard
We’ve partied in Miami, adventured all over Bonaire, and chilled out in Aruba — our blogging trio gets together whenever we can. But Kristin, Angie and I don’t get to see each oth…
Finding a Map for Saturday: 10 Years Later
IN 2006, few weeks after I returned from my first round the world trip, I was eating lunch with a friend. “Have you seen A Map for Saturday?” she asked me. “No, what is it?”…