The best way to see the world is with your own two eyes. But you can’t always be traveling. For those times when you’re stuck at home, there’s one surefire way to at least temporarily slake your wanderlust: Lose yourself in a great travel photo...
Recently I have been re-reading my old journals of travels throughout Asia in the late 1970s. They present a vibrant catalog of adventures and put into focus some of the fundamental and far-ranging lessons those travels offered me. © zoom-zoom My...
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...
I just returned from a week in Namibia. I spent five nights sleeping in the bush, sometimes in simple tents on the ground, sometimes in permanent tented camps. When you sleep in the bush, your ears become keenly attuned to the sounds of the night. ...
Warning: Adult supervision needed. The thought flashed through my head as my father and I stood on the dock in Cologne, shivering in the December dark and scanning the Rhine for a ship that no longer seemed to be present. In all my years of travel,...
Four summers ago, Don George joined an exhilarating whitewater adventure with O.A.R.S. on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Here’s the account he penned in his journal at the time, written in the form of a conversation. Where have...
Standing in Brussels’ La Grand-Place, I look around at the ornate Gothic buildings and shiver, as if someone poked a finger into the base of my spine. Wafts of memories, many hazy at this point, fill my mind; I’d call it déjà vu, but I...
In 2010, seven of Adventure Collection’s ten members sponsored Blog Your Way Around the World, a unique online travel contest that challenged contestants to write a short essay about why they deserved to win eight of the world’s most amazing adventure vacations and how, if...
To me, It was so many things. My last continent, an amazing adventure and beauty that would leave me speechless. I left in January 2012, sailed from Ushuaia, Argentina across the Drake passage (the roughest waters in the world) to Antarctica. ...
MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE – I was awakened at 4:45 by a soft rap on the door. “Jambo, sir! May I come in with your breakfast? A Maasai staffer placed a tray with tea, heated milk, and shortbread biscuits on my desk. “Enjoy your day,...