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.

The world is your oyster. By Slavman. A woman holding a globe and dreaming of traveling the world.

Staying safe in an ever-changing world

The world is open to all the adventures you could hope for. The other facet of this is that there is a world of safety possibilities that need to be considered. These are developing and changing every year.
The Adventure Begins. Coffee cup in mountain stream. By Fredrick Kearney Jr

Why take a gap year to travel the world?

Travel broadens your horizons, but it is challenging to set aside time to take a real holiday (or vacation), but here is why you need to do it.
Ben Lecomte swimming in the ocean with flippers and fancy snorkel that looks like a dorsal fin.

Man to swim across the Pacific Ocean

Ben Lecomte has already swum across the Atlantic Ocean. Now hew will attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean. This a dramatic attempt to raise awareness about ocean plastic.
Tim Moss, Oncoming Traffic. Cycling the world.

With the sun on our right

Tim and Laura Moss quit their jobs to cycle 13,000 miles around the world. Riding across deserts, over mountains and through jungles, they braved climatic extremes from sub-zero blizzards to the sweltering tropics. But this is not a book about cycling. It is a book about the world and its people.
Rev Johannes Myors and his recumbant bicycle Alice on a mission.

An accident can’t stop a mission from God

"With every revolution of the wheels... a prayer goes up to Heaven." This is Reverend Johannes Myors' mantra as he rides his bicycle across the USA on his 73rd mission to help people in need.
Napali Coast by boat

48 hours in Kauai

Our adventure, Mark Loftin, books a last-minute, solo trip to Kauai, Hawaii, and avoids looking at pictures so the 550 square miles will be a surprise.
Frosty Wooldridge arrives at Atlantic Ocean during his Northern Tier bicycle tour.

Northern tier bicycle tour

Adventure creates unique “moments” for your heart, mind and body. You never forget the time when you slogged through a downpour along Oregon’s coast. You never forget that tornado funnel as you pedaled across Oklahoma...
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park

Exploring Yellowstone, hiking Glacier, and the unexpected in-between

Before the word "blog" even existed, Mark Loftin was an adventurer and contributor to our website. 17 years later, I'm glad to see he hasn't lost his adventurous spirit. In this post, Mark discovers an unexpected theme to his journey.
Tom Lais Bicycle Tour Logan Pass

Tom’s bicycle tour of africa

Tom, 61, wants to do something before he runs out of of time, so he decides to cycle through Africa.
Cycling Europe. Courtesy of Memory Catcher

4 Europe cycling tours you’ll enjoy

If you’re looking for an active and healthy, but also exhilarating holiday, setting out on European cycling tour is a great choice.
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.
Rachel Hugens and Patrick on the equator in Africa. They stand in front of sign that says, "You are now crossing the equator. Jambo. Kenya!"

Dreaming of doing the absurd

Rachel tells her story: "I found myself without obligations, dealing with the pain of ending a long-term relationship when the idea of cycle touring started to form."