December is a prime travel season, that time when everyone hits the airports for family obligations and holiday travel. By Jan. 1, I’d flown from Seattle to Europe to southwest Florida and finally home to the Pacific Northwest – about 10,000 miles overall. ...
Susan Orlean is the acclaimed, best-selling author of eight books, including My Kind of Place, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Saturday Night and Lazy Little Loafers. In 1999, she published The Orchid Thief, a narrative about orchid-poachers in Florida, which was made into the Oscar-wining...
The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) announced this week that The North Face and REI are joining the school’s Expedition Denali team as technical gear sponsor and retail sponsor, respectively. Expedition Denali is a historical undertaking by the first predominantly African American team to attempt to...
In December, world-renowned rafting outfitter O.A.R.S. successfully completed their first descent down one of the world’s last truly wild rivers—the Upper Drangme Chhu in Bhutan. Cascading down from the eastern Himalaya, the Drangme Chhu challenges rafters with Class IV to V whitewater amidst dramatic mountain...
When the adventure travel route becomes too predictable and routine, it’s time to look beyond the standard map and guidebook. That’s the philosophy behind the new Natural Habitat Expeditions that launched recently when the world’s premier nature travel company, Natural Habitat Adventures, merged with the...
When I was 10 years old, my father read “The Hobbit” aloud to my sister and me over several weeks. Of course I didn’t realize it at the time, but the tale of how Bilbo Baggins gets dragged out of his comfort zone is...
Candace Rose Rardon is an American writer, photographer and artist who sketches as she travels. These sketches, combined with the stories behind them, poignantly portray those moments of encounter and illumination that become the stepping stones of adventure, inner and outer. We are extremely pleased...
Each November and December, photographers and bird-lovers from around the world travel to Bosque Del Apache, New Mexico, to photograph and experience the world-famous “blastoff.” Each morning, around 7 am, thousands of snow geese and sandhill cranes take off in a fast-paced flurry . ....
Show me a child with a sophisticated palate and I’ll show you a child who is not my child. Even at 10 and 13, my kids still order a lot of pasta when we dine out. Still, there are occasional glimpses of light at the...