10 Reasons Why a Dose of Fear Is Good for You
Sometimes, fear can be debilitating; but in the right doses, it can actually be good for you! Here are 10 reasons why....
13 December, 2017
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La Vía Poética
Pablo Neruda celebrated lemons, socks, artichokes, bees, broken things. He filled his odes with clocks and memory, thread and temptation, wine and dreams...
11 November, 2017
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Extinction Tourism: Seeing Wild Animals Before They’re Gone
If you travel to see rare wildlife, you may be an "extinction tourist." Are such trips more likely to help or harm the scarce animals you go to see?...
08 November, 2017
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The Call of Autumn Colors: Fall Foliage Photo Poetry
In these autumn landscapes, the colors of fall foliage are sending us a message....
25 October, 2017
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The Travel Cycle’s Four Stages—Plus One
It's said that travel has four stages: dream, plan, go and share. I'd suggest a small—but pivotal—additional step to complete the travel cycle....
18 October, 2017
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Surrendering to Seven Sights in Chile’s Patagonia
Patagonia is a place of soaring beauty and soul-healing expansiveness. Nothing can prepare you for the reality of experiencing it in person. The only thing you can do in such a sacred place is surrender. And so I did....
20 September, 2017
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The World’s Best Travel Pilgrimages
Pilgrimages add to travel the adventure of the quest; they turn the traveler into a seeker, an explorer of both inner and outer landscapes...
16 September, 2017
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Enchanted by Chile: Three Wine Country Wonders
After four decades as a travel writer and editor, Don George finally visits Chile for the first time — and discovers the wonders of Chilean wine country....
16 August, 2017
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The Aiguille du Midi: Portal to Adventure in the French Alps
It's a high-altitude, glacier-adorned wonderland on the Mont Blanc massif. And, if you're up for summiting the more than 15,000ft-high peak of Aiguille du Midi, it may be your perfect adventure....
05 July, 2017
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A Conversation with Patagonia Explorer and “Unbounded” Filmmaker Garrett Martin – Part One
In 2016, four young travelers set off unaided into Chilean Patagonia. For four months the team trekked and pack-rafted along the longest continual trail network in South America, documenting their journey, the region, and the local people. Meet Garrett Martin, the director of their film...
24 June, 2017
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