By: Jack M. Rosalind “Roz” Savage is a 47-year-old environmentalist, conservationist, author and public speaker. And she is also an adventurer extraordinaire. She has run marathons, contributed to research on Inca ruins and spent three months travelling alone in Peru…
Life without Borders
This website lets you find your travel soul mate and take the trip of your lifetime
BY: ZOE MELNYK Traveling alone may induce feelings of freedom and independence. However, when you’re scaling the harsh terrain of Mount Everest or white water rafting through the forceful Colorado River, a travel companion is practically necessary. Now, if you’re…
For 511 blissful days this couple hitchhiked from Bulgaria to India without smartphones
BY: JESSICA BEUKER All too often the raw, untamed aspects of travel get overlooked by smartphones, GPS and tablets. Screen addiction has created an invisible barrier between the natural world and us. Just try and remember the last time you…
Hipcamp is the Airbnb of camping
As an avid camper my perfect summer would consist of rugged forests, secluded trails, hidden sandy beaches and a night so quiet and still, you can hear your own thoughts. Commercial camping is great, but it also comes with its…
5 reasons you should hitchhike across the country and sleep under the stars this summer
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Hitchhiking is a traveller’s heroin. I’ve chased the high since I was 16 from coast to coast in the world’s second largest country on a budget of zero dollars and trail-mix, taken strange drugs with hippy kingpins,…
Want to chase the tail of adventure? Here are 6 realistic destinations for your broke ass
BY: ZOE MELNYK Have you ever looked at someone who travels for a living and thought, how is this possible? The answer isn’t magic, it isn’t a giant trust fund, and it isn’t winning the lottery. The truth is that…
The grandparent country of the green roof is still creating fairytale-worthy masterpieces
BY: LISA CUMMING A glance across Norway’s rural landscape from a bird’s eye view won’t reveal much. But from the ground homes and farms seem to emerge from the ground wearing helmets made of grass. Think Chia Pet lookalikes but…
Why I quit my high-paying corporate job to live off-grid lost in a desert eco-village
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA I graduated from a top school, came from a well-off family, and got a high-paying corporate job. Today, I’m what some like to call a hippie. Two years ago, I was living in Dubai, in an…
Why I, and everyone else should have a personal vendetta against “glamping”
BY: LISA CUMMING One year at summer camp a spider attacked my earlobe and it swelled up to the size of a rather large grape. The camp hadn’t had the funds necessary to hire a full-time nurse so I rifled…
10 reasons to drop your shit job and take the ultimate road trip with your pals
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Luke Fraser and his good friend Bubby Vernon planned a trip to see the world while in the thick of their post-secondary education. Once they finally completed university, they flew to New Zealand and began their year-long…
Adult summer camp is the childhood nostalgia you’ve been waiting for
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The smell of bug spray and campfire smoke wafting through the air. A slightly out of pitch voice singing Wonderwall. Ghost stories. Bunk Beds. Friendship bracelets. Apparently that’s what summer camp feels like. Unfortunately for me, I…
Why you should just say “fuck it” and hit the road while you still can
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Growing up I didn’t travel a lot. Sure, there was the odd family trip, which usually meant a two-hour car ride to a small Saskatchewan town or a weekend getaway at a cabin. These trips were fun…
Dutch company designs office-caravans to let you work on the road, off-the-grid, or in the wild
BY:MATTHEW CHIN In the Netherlands, a country with one of the highest workplace satisfaction rates in the world according to monster, one company plans to introduce natural scenery and nomadism to the office. Amsterdam-based KantoorKaravaan, which translates to Office Caravan,…
I illegally climbed to the roof’s edge of Toronto’s tallest buildings with a prolific Urban Explorer
The late-evening sunset afterglow covers Toronto’s cityscape which in light of where I’m headed seems a lot more daunting than peaceful. My stomach drops as I look out the window as my train pulls into the station. The varying heights…
A Texas design student built a tiny house to shelter his broke student ass and live debt-free
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Design student Joel Weber is a third-year university student who found that living near campus was unaffordable, costing upwards of $800 per month in rent. In Texas, the average tuition at Weber’s university, the University of Texas…
New adventure company lets you test your survival skills by renting a deserted island
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Maybe you watched Tom Hanks struggle to stay alive on a deserted island in Cast Away and thought “small potatoes,” or thought the entire cast of hit TV series, Lost, were massive wussies. Well guess what—it’s time…
Cat-loving couple quits comfortable jobs to sail the world with their cat as first mate (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Matt and Jessica Johnson were living the American Dream—go to school, get married, buy a house, start a career. The only thing they were missing were the 2 kids expected for an average nuclear family. That all…
Residents of this underground town live invisible to the eyes of surface dwellers
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Desert temperatures that exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit have left the surface inhospitable—which is why over half of the town’s 2,000 citizens live underground. Coober Pedy, a small town in South Australia, sits upon the edge of a…
These Dumpster Diving Artists built floating sculptures and sailed them from Slovenia to Venice
All Photos by: Tod Seelie If the love and drug-fueled hippies of the ’70s were ever born again and decided to relive the river-running adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this certainly would have been it. Brooklyn-based street artist, SWOON, and her…
Photographer hitchhikes across Europe to take powerful portraits of self-ruling people
After being swept away in the flow of constant emails, only to be caught in the dead river of early morning traffic, many of us stew and question the overwhelming pace of our lives. Do I really want my life…