BY: JESSICA BEUKER A few years ago most people didn’t even know that Airbnb existed. Now it’s the go-to travel buddy for many travellers all over the world. With affordable listings in a wide range of accommodation types, Airbnb is…
Life without Borders
Apparently, a quaint English village for the learning disabled is being bullied by a charity
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In North Yorkshire, England there is a unique village—a community built on the principle of a level playing field for a group of people who are largely marginalized by society. This village is home to more than…
This video takes you on an incredible tour of the astonishing Pacific Crest Trail
BY: ROB HOFFMAN From the sun-bleached hills of Mexico’s boarder to the frozen edge of Canadian woodland—the Pacific Crest Trail has seen a lot of love ever since Cheryl Strayed’s novel-turned-blockbuster, Wild, hit the big screen. Though the true magic…
I hiked to 10,000 ft. in the High Sierras, and found the mountain top was powdered with coke
BY: TYLER FYFE We came to a wood cabin, drawn like moths to the smothered glow of oil lamps in foggy window panes. We had hiked nearly blind through the night—measuring our progress by the sound of crunching gravel. When…
These photos from the greatest bedroom on earth give you a glimpse into the romance of van-life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The Internet and social media outlets like Instagram have accelerated the world’s infatuation with the van-dwelling, road-tripping, vagabond lifestyle to near obsession. Though the lifestyle and form of travel is nothing new in-and-of itself, there is new…
A former homeless man released the blueprints for an incredible off-grid solar home for only $2,000
BY: ROB HOFFMAN When misfortune strikes it comes in threes. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and other times it’s an excuse to innovate. Fifteen years ago, Lamar Alexander lost everything—his wife, health and home, forcing him into…
New telescoping road-trip mobile expands to 3x its size with the push of a button
BY: ROB HOFFMAN French company, Beauer, just came out with a caravan that will solve the age-old travellers’ conundrum of comfort versus mobility. A van is compact and ultra portable, yet it lacks the living space and amenities of something…
Meet Jill Redwood – she’s lived off-grid for more than 30 years
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In a world where almost everyone is owned by their technology, thoughts of going completely off the grid start to creep into the mind. We zombie-walk through life on a leash, the other end tied around the…
After visiting 100 off-grid homes, this is the barebones truth about life in the pathless woods
BY: TYLER FYFE In a frostbitten valley in the deep bush of Northern Saskatchewan lives the most isolated couple in North America—100 km away from the nearest unpaved road. The only way in or out is by float plane. Ron…
7 reasons why travel is the best relationship you will ever have
BY: TRENT FLESKENS If you’ve ever been in love, then you likely already know how much it sucks to have your heart completely broken. I’m talking ripped out, torn to pieces, chewed up, spit out and stomped on. Breakups are…
Thanks to a New Zealand earthquake the homeless now sip champagne, ride horses and live like kings
BY: ELI ROSS The Christchurch earthquake registered a 6.3 on the Richter scale, becoming New Zealand’s second deadliest natural disaster and flipping the world of most of its population upside down. But those who slept on park benches and below…
This Australian couple ditched society to permanently circle paradise in a sail-boat
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Here’s a glimpse into the lives of Australian globetrotter couple and travel-bloggers, Riley and Elayna, currently circumnavigating the high seas on their sail-boat, La Vagabonde. Riley traded nearly a decade of toil in mines and oil rigs…
How to embrace the zen of hiking with purpose
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Though the first carried more miles, the second day of the hike was totally and unapologetically uphill. When you ascend, hiking becomes the zen of endurance. First, you are stripped of all the pleasures of hiking. Your excitement…
This vagabond-extraordinaire is re-claiming America on a green cafe racer named Battle Cat
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The romance of a road-trip on two wheels has long inspired the bold, adventurous and freedom-loving, including iconic thinkers like Che Guevara, Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Dylan. After all these years the appeal of a motorcycle…
Wild land fire fighters tell us what it’s really like combating dangerous fires
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ This past summer there has been a flurry of fires sweeping the west coast destroying everything in its pathway. We watch the news and hear of the flames that are swallowing the west coast tree by tree,…
How a selfie turned a high school dropout into one of Nat Geo’s greatest photographers
BY: TYLER FYFE Cory Richards is not your typical high school dropout. He was nearly homeless when he decided to use photography to educate himself . So far he has been to all seven continents, witnessed Polar bears standing on the…
My first time hiding legally purchased weed from a California State Trooper went like this
BY: TYLER FYFE We were somewhere in Southern California speeding down the blacktop in a rental car when we saw the sirens of a State Trooper. We still had a brown paper bag full of the weed we had bought…
Take a peek inside this magical 1969 hippie tree house village in Hawaii
BY: CONNOR BRIAN At the edge of a long winding beach road, on the shaded jungle island of Kauai, sat a tiny village paradise where clothing was optional, weed was smoked openly, and where love and freedom were the only…
Driver narrowly escapes from the heart of a forest fire and captures it all on video
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The Golden State is currently under fire. Enduring the most severe drought in over a century, forest fires have broken out across the west coast, charring the once green and blue hillsides into a dusty beige. Driving…
This adventure kayaker’s unbelievable photos take zen to a whole new level
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Tomasz Furmanek gets in his kayak one leg at a time just like everyone else. Except once he’s in the kayak, he takes photographs worthy of a 30-second open-mouth drool that most kayakers could only dream of.…