Guest Adventures

Our Mission: To inspire people to embrace their fears and turn their dreams into reality. (We’ve been featuring adventurers since 1999, before “blog” was even a word, and long before “social media”.) To contribute your inspirational story contact us. We like to showcase all kinds of adventurers, whether you are on the cutting edge frontier or doing a backyard adventure.

Pacific Coast bicycle tour Dick and Ingrid in full gear on a windy day

Sometimes adventure just gets in your bones

Dick and Ingrid have started a new journey and cycle down the Pacific Coast.
Vilmar Tavares profile picture

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.
Filmmaker Gia Marie Amella

Her sacred island

Gia Marie Amella, a Fulbright scholar, spent a year in Sicily to film a documentary. "I wanted to show what it's like to live in a country that never really found its place."
Red Calm by Lisa Kristine Huff

Lisa Kristine: A photographer at home with the world

"The experience of traveling has always been a great mentor for me," Lisa Kristine says, "A far greater mentor than academia."
Petra Jordon in early morning light

Feature Photo: The Treasury

Welcome to our first Feature Photo: The Treasury. Petra, the "rose-red city, half as old as time," was lost to civilization until discovered by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, a Swiss explorer, in 1812.
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."