Educational adventures

Is there a better education than the real world? These are adventures with the theme of learning, whether that be a new language, a new culture or just about anything.

Rim Trail, Grand Canyon Village, United States

How my teacher helped me live my life

In seventh grade, I had a teacher, Mr Montgomery, who changed my life in more ways than one. We exchanged addresses so that we could send each other postcards of our summer vacations.
The balcony of a hotel in San Jose, Puerto Rico, glowing orange in the city lights.

Living like a local to improve your Spanish

Are you embarrassed that your are not very fluent. Or do locals automatically start speaking English? Daniel discusses 3 rules to carrying on a conversation in Spanish with locals.
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Women across the millennia

For Ellen Boneparth, it happened at Delphi. She and a group of over twenty women were at the end of a two-and-a-half week journey across the ages, forming a circle together deep inside a cave that ancient Greeks had once used for goddess worship, praying to "Mother Earth."
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Antarctica photo pictorial

An antarctic photo pictorial by our antarctic explorer, Vilmar, with interesting captions about life on McMurdo Station.
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An adventure way way down under

Vilmar's adventure in Antarctica is one of our first real-time adventures. Well, as real-time as it could get in the year 2000. Vilmar sent us regular updates from the road and we would relay his message to the world.
Dr Lillian Larson sitting with villagers in Indonesia

Getting an education during summer vacation

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."