As an adventurer, you know that the place you go to often isn’t as important as how you travel or what you do after you arrive. Consider these seven exceptional — uncommon and unexpected! — expeditions for 2015....
Adventurous travelers can photograph in-the-wild big cats in several locations around the world – Kenya, Botswana, Tanzania and India perhaps being the most popular. In this column I'll share with you some of my favorite in-the-wild photographs of big cats, along with some tips for...
Bay Area-based writer and editor Amanda McKee didn’t know what to expect when she embarked on her first trip to Bhutan. The Himalayan kingdom is famed for its policy of Gross National Happiness, but beyond that, it’s a blank on most travelers’ maps. In this...
On June 22, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) voted to recognize Botswana’s Okavango Delta as its 1,000th World Heritage Site. The Delta now joins a select group of the world’s most treasured cultural and natural sites, including the Pyramids, the Great Barrier...
In the summer of 2005, I traveled to Tahiti on my first volunteer trip. I was 16 years old and my adolescent mind had not yet wrapped itself around the fact that traveling could be more than a reason to vacation. For two weeks, I...
Photography is an important part of adventure travel, and for many travelers, experiencing and photographing sunrises and sunsets is often a high point of an adventure. In this column I'll share with you some of my favorite sunrise and sunset photographs along with tips you...
On a winter weekend in mid January of this year, a man who lives in Dallas, Texas, won a Namibian auction. For $350,000, he gained the right to hunt an endangered black rhino. His life hasn’t been the same since....
Even if you’re not quite heading out to the wilds of Papua New Guinea, a thoughtfully packed travel medicine kit can save a lot of time and worry. After all, would you rather be exploring a new place or exploring a pharmacy? ...
Read why award-winning photographer Rick Sammon thinks it's important to have a sense of adventure and take a tour through some of his most captivating photographs...
June 30th marks the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, which established Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove as the first federally protected park of its kind – set aside for the enjoyment of a nation. Thanks Abe Lincoln! ...