By Scott Stoll
Published: June 7, 2016
Updated: 1 day ago

Adventures

It’s our mission to feature inspirational adventures of all kinds, even those in your own backyard

Before you go anywhere, whether that be a vacation, sight-seeing tour, backpacking cross countries, volunteer mission, expedition or a full-fledged adventure, it’s useful to learn what an adventure is and how to set a theme to your travels. And you might need some inspiration. Below is a collection of all the inspiring adventures that we’ve featured for the last twenty years.

Adventure categories

Scott’s Adventurers.
Guest Adventurers.
Backyard Adventures. Do it yourself.
Submit Your Adventure. Share the inspiration.

Adventures by type

We’ve grouped a lot of categories together, like unicycle and bicycle, so if you are looking for a specific type of adventure or location, please do a search.

Bicycle Tourists (Bikepackers)
Boat
Budget
Charity
Ecotourism
Education
Extreme Adventure
Famous Explorers
Fly
Gap Year
Hiking and Backpacking
Horseback
Inner Journey
Mars
Motorized
Mountain Climb
Photographer
Physically Challenged
Road Trip
Senior Citizen
Solar-Powered
Solo
Space
The Arts
Tricycle
World Records

About our adventures

Before the era of blogs

When Scott’s first adventure-travel website, theArgonauts.com, came online in 1999, our vision was to give adventurers a forum to share their hopes and dreams and pass along the boon of their adventures, like new ideas and lessons learned. We were an online adventure magazine before the concept of a webzine, blog or guest post existed, and long before social media was created and made it easy to share content.

Another goal was to post the stories in real-time. At this time, we could see the Internet was going to revolutionize global communication, but the infrastructure and technology still weren’t in place. In fact, the only way many adventurers had to share their inspirational story was to email us and have us post their story online. Many people wanted us to automate these features, which would have essentially been one of the first blogging platforms. TheArgonauts.com was ahead of its time and unfortunately could never find the estimated $50-100,000 to create the features that companies like Facebook and WordPress now make so free and easy for everyone.

Below are a collection of stories that are from before the digital era of cell phones and social media. We’re really proud to have been on the cutting edge. We cared about every story.

Feature Explorers

Just Giving

by Alastair Humphreys

Meet Göran Kropp

By Elz Cuya

Rounding The Horn

By Michael Dick

BT Global Challenge 2000-2001, “The World’s Toughest Yacht Race.” A 36,000 nautical mile circumnavigation of the globe against prevailing winds and currents.

The Oldest Person to Sail Solo Around the World

By Andy Graham

Thailand and Laos by Bike

By Stacy Fowler with Elz Cuya

Throwing Stones to Save the World

By Melissa Clark

Women Across the Millennia: A Greek Adventure

By Robert Foote

Where the Road Ends and the Walking Begins

By Robert Foote

This is the story of one woman, and how her real education began the moment she set out to travel the world.

A Traveler Honors Her Soul

By Elz Cuya

For the Love of Travel

By Melissa Clark

A Photographer is at Home with the World

By Elz Cuya

“The experience of traveling has always been a great mentor for me, a far greater mentor than academia.”

Her Sacred Island

By Elz Cuya

“I wanted to show what it’s like to live in a country that never really found its place.”

Getting an Education During Summer Vacation

By Elz Cuya

Dr. Lillian Larson: “I travel in order to enrich my life and the life of others. I feel that I can help bring remote parts of the world a little closer together.”

The Making of a Mountain Climber

By Elz Cuya

Paul Mansky: “You’re on top of the world, vast views in every direction. 5,000 feet down to the floor of the valley… perfect blue sky… the wind blowing… “

Encounter Your Soul in Antarctica

By Elz Cuya

“Where would you go to find the answers to life’s deepest questions? Is there a God? Why am I here? Is there life after death?” For seventy-six-year-old Professor Graham Collier, the answers were found in Antarctica.

In and Out of Cuba

By Mark Loftin

An Illegal Trip Turns into a Financial Nightmare

Re-Realizing My Roots

By Nishat Kurwa with Ateka Doctor

A Wedding Offers a Double Dose of Indian Culture

Burning Man — A pagan desert fiesta

By Tex Dworkin

Travelogues

Before social media existed or mobile devices became commonplace, The Argonauts gave dozens of people a chance to share their story as it was happening. Here are some of our favorite adventures.

A Trip to Mount Everest

By Doug Sovern

KCBS news reporter updates his trip via satellite phone, including news of 6 deaths.

Antarctica

By Vilmar Tavares

See the photo pictorial or read the complete journals of his Antarctic adventure.

Down the Mississippi River by canoe

By Richard Suleski

Retired couple bicycles Alaska

By Dick and Ingrid Adams

See the photo pictorial or read the complete journals of their Alaskan Adventure.

Around the world by horse

By Manfred Shulze

Promoting a world without borders

The Americas and Europe on a bicycle

By Dennis Snader

Dennis shares stories about his bicycle trip around the world with Scott.

Cycling the North Eastern United States

By Forrest MacCormack

And a few more classic journeys types.

The following are miscellaneous travelogues. These were email updates before the era of digital devices and social media that we posted so the world could follow along with the journey in real-time. They are perhaps not very interesting in retrospect; however, they represent some classic solutions to an alternative lifestyle of living on the road.

Hannu Berghäll: Backpacking Asia and teaching English in China.
Mike and Linda: Quit their jobs, sold their car, rented their condominium and took an 18-month journey to disconnect and reconnect to what’s important.
Marty Page: An Aussie Gap Year. The Australian ritual of fun and more fun for recent college graduates.

Columns

To The Stars: Space Tourism

By Brook Mantia

Backyard Adventures

By Jen Dalton

Making a living while traveling the world

by Andy Graham the Hobo traveler

Photo Pictorials:

About the photographs

In the beginning, our website showcased hundreds of Feature Photos by travelers on the road with no ability to share their pictures with the world. However, now with the advent of social media, travelers can easily share their own photos without us. So, we don’t post single pics or blurbs anymore; but, we still have an audience that loves an inspirational story with lots of photographs. So please share your guest post. Below are a couple of our favorite oldies. Please note: back in the 1990’s resolution was really limited, so that people could download the website on their dial-up phone modems, and everyone was still using film.