Let's go exploring!
Welcome. I explore how to live a more meaningful and joyful life,
and I invite you to join the journey.
Welcome. I explore how to live a more meaningful and joyful life, and I invite you to join the journey.
I’m Scott Stoll, Author, Artist, Adventurer and a work-in-progress. My claim to fame is that I rode a bicycle around the world. For 25 years, I’ve been posting adventures, stories, life experiments, worksheets, and more.
This website works the same as my formula for turning dreams into reality:
- Get inspired. Dream big or little.
- Plan your adventure. To me, everything is an adventure.
- Go explore! Live your dream, share your adventure, get support and inspire others.
- Grow! Reflect on your successes and “failures.”
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Let's Go Exploring!
I explore how to live a more meaningful and joyful life. Join me in the adventure and get all this stuff:
- Verified HumanVH content. I never imagined having to say this, but these are my real words, real pictures, and real-life adventures.
- Worksheets to help you live a more joyful and meaningful life.
- Unique behind-the-scenes content.
- It’s the best way to stay in touch. (Social media sites limit how many people see a post.) You’ll get timely updates straight to your inbox.
- Be part of a growing community to help support each other’s adventures.
- Finally, as a show of thanks, I include a couple surprises. I don’t want to tell you more, because I want you to join for the so-called right reasons. Haha.
- See some sample newsletters.
I created this online app to help you plan your travels. It’s especially helpful if you are in the brainstorming phase. I share my travel philosophy regarding money. And, the calculator includes all my lessons learned, like my formula for surprises, which saved my butt many times.
Popular articles that have withstood the test of time
How to be the hero of your own life
Are we born with a special purpose?
What does it mean to be a hero? Does the world need to be saved? If so, who will get the job? I feel that I was born with a special purpose, and most people I talk to feel the same way. This series explores whether life is a game of king of the mountain, or if we are all gifted in our own way.
- What is a hero? Are you on a hero’s journey or just a wanderer? Or…
- What is an adventure? How does adventure differ from traveling, a vacation, or everyday mishaps? Is an adventurer a special kind of person, or is it poor planning?
- What is the hero’s prize? What is the end goal, meaning the purpose of your journey — your life?
- All articles in the Hero Series.
Bicycle Quotes
The oldest and best collection of bicycle quotes on the web
Riding a bicycle is a great metaphor for life! Well… at least, we think so. That’s why I started collecting these timeless quotable quotes way back in the early 1990s.
- Top 100 bicycle quotes of all time.
- Bicycle quotes explained. How did these popular bicycle quotes originate?
- Bicycle quotation mashup quiz. Can you guess the original famous quote?
- Bicycle slogans.
Falling Uphill
Scott's quest for happiness around the world on a bicycle
Scott asked himself, “If I could do anything, what would I do?” His answer turned into a 4-year and 25,752-mile odyssey around the world by bicycle, searching for happiness and the meaning of life. Scott’s journey was one of the first circumnavigations around the planet on a bicycle using only paper maps. Read about the trek around the world on a bicycle.
Dreamaplay
Our new website for kids and their parents, teachers, and caregivers
I believe everything is an adventure, and all good adventures start with a dream. So I teamed up with like-minded people that wanted to teach kids these valuable life lessons.
In 2018, we published our workbook Dream It! and matching website Dreamaplay.com to teach kids (and adults) how to dream and how to turn those dreams into reality using our easy 3-step formula: 1) Dream it! 2) Map it! 3) Play it! We use traditional pencil-and-paper games and evidence-based activities that teach important concepts, and put them into action right away — because we all know that kids learn by doing — playing!
Dreamaplay.com is full of free resources for kids and their parents, teachers, and healthcare providers. It was over 4 years in the making, and everything was tested in real-world classrooms.
A new children's book!!!
I’m proud to announce one dream turned into reality — my new book, Feel Your Feelings. During testing, this one has been an instant hit.
Feel Your Feelings introduces children to basic emotions with fun poems that they can act out from head to toe. They will learn that emotions are our friends. Some emotions show us what we love, others protect us from harm, and all of them put together, like colors on an artist’s palette, paint a beautiful picture of life.