Our history
Side note: I created this website so we can all help each other on our journey through life and pass along the boon of our adventures, like new ideas, lessons learned, and stories of our common struggles. If you want to know more about that and how to get the most out of this website, please visit: Start here. Otherwise, read about our fascinating history as true pioneers, and a little about what the future holds.
This website goes way back to 1999. It was an adventure-travel community modeled after one of the first adventure stories in Western history: Jason and the Argonauts, argonaut being a synonym for adventurer. We were an adventure-travel community dedicated to inspiring the human spirit by enabling people to venture into the unknown and sharing their dreams and discoveries with the world in real-time.
Our website was a blog before blogs existed. We shared stories before sharing was a thing. We innovated new standards. We won a few awards along the way. We ranked in the top 0.03% of websites in the world. And, most importantly, we inspired tens of thousands of people (adults and children) to follow their dreams.
The stories they have told us about their courageous leap into a new life have been our greatest reward. Most amazingly, my dream to see people share stories of their adventures in real-time as they happened did come true. Live updates are something we take for granted now, but back then, we lived in the age of postcards and occasional phone calls.
Here, you can read the whole story of our old website. I’m proud of what we accomplished. We were true pioneers in what has become the world of social media.
Our story hasn’t ended yet, and our mission statement remains much the same. I’m excited to see what the future will bring, perhaps even another trip around the world on a bicycle. I think that would be fun — a before and after of how Scott and the world have changed.
Thanks for riding alongside me on this adventure we call life.
~ Scott. Author, Artist, Adventurer.
Visit Our New Kid-Friendly Website
I believe everything is an adventure, and all good adventures start with a dream. So I teamed up with like-minded people who wanted to teach kids these valuable life lessons. We teach how to turn dreams into reality using our simple 3-step formula 1) Dream it! 2) Map it! 3) Play it! For even more fun stuff for kids and their parents, teachers and health care providers, please visit our new site Dreamaplay.com. It’s full of free, evidence-based resources.