BY: ROB HOFFMAN From the bedroom of an Airstream, views are panoramic. The valley catching first light from the rising sun over the red rock mountains, this is your alarm system. Still, you wait patiently for the frost to evaporate…
Life without Borders
This guy turned a 1970s retro caravan into a darkroom to take his photography on the road
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photographer Paul Alsop lives on the island of New Zealand, where finding anything ‘wet plate’ related is a mission. There is no online community, such as eBay, to search for old supplies, and the chemicals have to…
Mortgage-phobia is changing the way young couples co-exist
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Ice covers the winding Snoqualmie Pass in the early winter months, granting only the riskiest of travellers access over the 3,022 foot elevated summit and through to Seattle’s downtown core. The area is part of the Cascade…
This 27-year-old left school at 18 to travel the world and get a different kind of education
BY: TREVOR HEWITT At the age of 18, Christian Lindgren dropped out of school, let his lease run out and began travelling the globe. Fast forward nine years and Lindgren has visited 97 different countries—from Nigeria to North Korea. “Travelling has…
Hippie vans, off-grid and tiny homes: the New American Dream is measured by Instagram likes
By: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Rachel Bujalski was sharing a tiny apartment near Venice Beach with four other girls and paying $1,200 a month before she discovered how to live for free in California. She would still live…
Photographer hikes 130 km in Northern Sweden to prove a point about workaholic-worship
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ The West is full of workaholics, glorifying “business” and moving at a pace that often forgets to slow down now and then to actually live. Photographer Adelina Darvina realized she had allowed her busy schedule to consume…
Everest pioneer, George Mallory, tells you the meaning of life
BY: TYLER FYFE In 1922, George Mallory was asked by a journalist about why he would risk his life to be the first person to attempt to reach to summit of Mt. Everest? His profound response outlines an undeniably powerful…
6 TED Talks that will show you how to pack your life in a backpack and live your dream (Videos)
BY: EDITORS Collapsing your life into a backpack is equal parts pragmatism and symbolism. While choosing to simplify seems like the most straightforward choice you could possibly make, often the choice to self-determinate comes with a hidden complexity. Where do…
This 78-year-old road warrior should be an inspiration to all of us
BY: JACK M. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn…
This couple has spent 5 years and 80,000 glorious miles circling Europe in a VW camper van
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Lauren Smith and Calum Creasey have spent the past five years circling Europe in sporadic bursts and watching the diverse landscape evolve from behind the windshield of their 1996 VW T4 van. Originally hailing from the United…
Couple ditched the city for a 40-foot fire lookout with spectacular views of the Oregon Forest
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS They rise each day with the sun, rolling out of their bed to a jaw dropping 360-degree view of mountains and rolling meadows. Dabney Tompkins and Alan Colley’s lives changed for the better a few years ago, after…
This psychonaut had a revelation after watching The Simpsons on LSD for two days straight
BY: TREVOR HEWITT “Now is the time of The Simpsons.” Let’s face it – hallucinogenic psychedelics and cartoons go together like peanut butter and jelly. For years LSD has been used to induce spiritual journeys and help treat mental illness.…
This guy lives in an underground hobbit hole in a majestic meadow for under $5,000 a year
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Far off the main road, out in the sticks of Eastern Oregon, and down a forested trail lays a quiet meadow. The 200-acre space is a vast area of lush greenery, boasting streams and ponds, and a…
This couple builds a Portland tiny-home, lives for free and endlessly travels in a VW bus
BY: ROB HOFFMAN As Bryan and Jen peeled back the layers of their life, auctioned off their unnecessaries, bowed out of the 9-5 clockwork and unloaded the weight of their mortgage, it was as if they were finally joining hands…
Floating eco-haven lets you live off-grid, while casually meandering down any body of water
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Looking out at the smooth desert hills of Portugal’s Amieira Marina, inhabitants of the FloatWing drift slowly to the centre of the narrow basin, away from the scorched landscape, away from society, and slowly finding refuge far…
The treehouse lifestyle is for adventurers, nature lovers, the wild and peace seeking
BY: JESSICA BEUKER “Daddy, build me a treehouse.” A request that has been bellowed excitedly by almost every young child at some point in their life. The idea of having your own escape, a place you can go to think…
Family explores the wilderness full-time in an eco-trailer that runs on free vegetable oil
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Jerud and Ching roll their mountain bikes into and over the cascading mountains of the pathless Northern Pacific. Most days, they’ll spend their afternoons chasing the rugged and unfamiliar terrain and return to their trailer in the…
This infographic shows the easiest ways to beat the system and travel the world for free
BY: ROB HOFFMAN You would be surprised at the amount of free-travel opportunities that most people pass up because they don’t know the right places to look. Pricey all inclusive deals, tourism commercials and a general barrage of travel advertisements…
Why travel is sometimes the only cure for festering mediocrity and greyscale existence
BY: TYLER FYFE There were plenty of reasons not to come out here. Common sense was certainly one of them. I was pressed beneath the thumb of debt. But life was becoming a manic brand of boring. My weekdays were…
23-year-old saves $2,000/month living in a decked out van in Google’s company parking lot
BY: ROB HOFFMAN One of Google’s newest recruits, 23-year-old Brandon S. was left scratching his head after being drafted from the East Coast to work at the San Francisco office: at an average of $2,000/month for rent alone, how does…