Adventure Travel
Come See What It’s Like To Travel In Iraq
What’s going on in Egypt this week may just be the clearest sign yet that things are changing in Iraq. As what is described as a “geopolitical shift,” the NY Times reported how foreign countries were busy flying out nationals this week, and then noted how “even Iraq decided it would evacuate its citizens, sending […]
A Walk To Ponder – Taxila, Pakistan
“Where is it? Why don’t you have it framed?” “I don’t know. It’s rolled up here somewhere.” I often wonder about life in a classroom and the difference between education inside and out in the streets. Over many years of personal anthropological studies (people watching from cafe windows or park benches), I have observed with […]
Climbing Sinai: Hiking The World’s Second Most Famous Mountain
Trek along for a hike up the biblical Mount Sinai for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to watch the sun rise from the second most famous mountain in the world. By Matt Scott In almost any other country Gebel Musa, which many believe to be the legendary Mount Sinai, would have a chairlift to the summit, a […]
Looking For An Alternative Trail To Machu Picchu?
Has anyone else noticed how it seems like more and more people they know have just traveled to or are planning to visit Machu Picchu? Not that I don’t understand why — it’s indisputably one of the great sights to see on Earth, and pretty much on everyone’s “bucket list” — but usually these types […]
Travel To Afghanistan: The Next Frontier?
If I were to look back upon some of the places I’ve traveled to recently — Colombia, Argentina, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mozambique — as recently as even a decade ago, people would’ve thought I was crazy to travel to some of those countries. So is the prospect that travel to Afghanistan really that far-fetched of an […]
Remembrance Of Bad Trips Past
So, this holiday season, had a chance yet to gather up the family, grab a box of popcorn, and settle into the multiplex to watch James Franco hack off his arm on the big screen? If not, you’re missing out, because director Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours is more Slumdog Millionaire than Saw, and I guarantee […]
Traveling To Ski Or Skiing to Travel? Answer: Yes!
While Matt was hobnobbing with famous actors-cum-travel writers (or vice versa), I spent my night sitting in a dark corner of a small theater. The audience’s energy was electric and the whoops erupted throughout the night. Those hollers were unleashed for the sensory assault brought on by the premier of Warren Miller’s most recent epic […]
The Badass European 4WD Camping Rig Festival (Or Something Like That)
Spurred on by this month’s photo contest of “Adventure Travel” (check it out here), I was curiously flipping through the virtual pages of The Adventure Life magazine when I came across a photo essay on the entrants in this year’s 12th annual Abenteur and Allrad Overland Festival in Belgium, what I learned to be the […]
The Road To Tibet: Crossing The Friendship Highway
Tibet’s history is a complicated story of spirituality, invasion, conquest, and persecution. Once a Buddhist nation governed by the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s religious identity was brutally stripped away in 1951 when Chinese troops forcibly occupied the region, destroying monasteries and killing thousands of civilians. In 1959 the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and settled under the […]
Going To Machu Picchu This Fall? See The Rest Of Peru
The high season for Machu Picchu is roughly June through September, as summer travelers use their vacation time to explore the ruins in the predictably good weather these months bring. In October the rainy season begins, not a great time to trek along narrow paths and camp outside. Oddly enough, I know several people who […]