By: JACK M. Many of us do it once or even twice a year—we go on vacation. And travelling to a new state or province, or even to a new country, is as much a part of the experience…
Life without Borders
These best friends quit their jobs to visit 59 national parks in 59 weeks
BY: ALEX BROWN Something devastating happens when you reach your late twenties, hit the quarter-life milestone and responsibility comes knocking at your door. Soon, you’ll no longer be able to consider yourself in the careless twenty-something bracket—but that doesn’t mean…
These brothers discarded the corporate life to chase all 50 states in a Sprinter Van
BY: ALEX BROWN On January 1st, 2016, Justin and Adam Fricke climbed aboard their new 2008 Dodge Sprinter Van and drove north. Their home town of Orlando shrank in the rearview until it disappeared in a vapour of commercial real-estate,…
A dream vacation just became one man’s full-time job
BY: CAROLINE ROLF What if you had the opportunity to walk across Norway on foot, exploring the country’s incredible streams and mountains? This would be the ideal vacation for most adventurers, and it just became a full-time job for…
This guy hand-built an eco-friendly cob house for only $250
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Michael Buck wanted to prove that paying for a house shouldn’t take a lifetime or require burdensome loans. So the 59-year-old British farmer and retired art teacher decided to build a cob house in his garden—for a…
This 73-year-old built a 60ft steel whale-home to sail back and forth across the Atlantic
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Beached somewhere in the Scottish Highlands along a sea’s loch, 73-year-old Tom McClean stands ankle-deep aside his 20-metre steel whale, feeling out the water’s swell and waiting for the perfect moment to take her seaborne once more.…
This climatologist mapped the ideal North American road-trip for an endless summer
BY: ROB HOFFMAN There’s a reason most van-lifers reside along the stretch of U.S. coast between southern Washington and San Diego. If you’re Canadian or belong to the American Midwest, your road-trip hourglass contains half as much sand as someone…
You can make $960 a day picking post-wildfire mushrooms
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The Yukon has always captivated our imaginations, both with visions of the untamed wild and a market of untapped resources leading thousands each year into a treasure hunt on the prophetic heels of the late 1800s. However, it…
This breathtaking home is a nature lover’s dream come true
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ashland, Oregon, a town nestled in the foothills of mountain ranges, surrounded by beautiful rivers and granted perfect weather all year round is the epitome of the ideal living place. To further the fantasy, the ultimate…
A look into the hippie caves of Matala that Joni Mitchell called home
BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is a fishing village on the island of Crete, Greece dotted with manmade caves carved into the sandstone cliff. The village is known as Matala and, in the 1960s and ’70s, it was a community for…
Road Trip Journal: From Germany to Croatia, sleeping on a roof (photos)
BY: MARLEN MUELLER AND THOMAS ADLER Based in Berlin, we are both freelance photographers and designers. In 2015 we founded Urban Tenting – the digital home of our camping and hiking travels. In September 2015 we took a road trip…
How the strangers you meet while travelling are just like Schrödinger’s cat
BY: EMILY PLEASANCE It was the summer of 2012 in Toronto, and temperatures were reaching all-time highs. The pavement was hot, the people were sticky, and everyone was minding their own business trying to cool down in Union Station while…
How a rusty, old Volkswagon bus led this adventure-seeking couple to ultimate happiness
BY: SARAH AND MATT PARK I wake up startled with my face smooshed against the curved side of the van wall. Matt is twitching in his sleep again. Our bed is only slightly wider than a twin-sized mattress, which means…
This entrepreneur will pay you $100,000 to drop out of college
BY: CAROLINE ROLF According to PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, the key to achieving a successful business quickly is by skipping college, and he’ll pay you to do it. The Thiel Foundation is offering $100,000 fellowships to entrepreneurs under 22 to…
How I learned that being a full-time traveller isn’t always freedom and adventure
The moment I realized the dream was getting away from me, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Wrocław, Poland, a city with a name that sounds nothing like what you’d expect: vrat-swaf. We were on a long weekend trip…
32 states, 13,000 miles, in an epic time-lapse that will inject life into your soul-sucking weekday (Video)
BY: EDITORS Two years ago, Shane Black was being suffocated by his comfort-zone. Everything around him seemed so familiar that it all blended together, his days passing like a blur in a passenger’s window. When humans resign their lives to…
$20,000 dream homes are being built in this Georgia town where 70% of public land is edible
BY: ALEX BROWN One summer weekend in 1991, Steve and Marie Nygren took their children to the Georgia woods on the outskirts of Atlanta, a broad growth of mossy poplars and cedar stretching through the fat stink of red soil…
These 12 otherworldly creations raised from the sand will transport your soul to Burning Man
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Tens of thousands of participants gather about 120 miles from Reno Nevada, in the Black Rock Dessert, to marvel at hundreds of extraordinary creations that have risen from the dust. This August marks the 30th anniversary of…
These photos prove the Canadian Rockies are infinitely more glorious than Yosemite
BY: ALEX BROWN Most of the time, if you’re looking for sexy nature photos on the internet, or a photographer wants to wow you with a landscape shot, or a “modern website” needs a shiny background photo for their homepage,…
How this couple travelled to 50 countries and five continents on $8 a day in their VW van
BY: ALEX BROWN Their story is familiar to anyone with itchy feet to travel, or those who are feeling the weight of the office grind bearing down on them and are looking for a way out. Hailing from Poland, Karol…