BY: ROB HOFFMAN Photo by: Eric Valli for original photo series called “Off The Grid” Where off-grid living once called to mind visions of reclusiveness, loners and dirty hermits, its reputation has since settled in to the golden throne of…
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Going on a road trip increases your creativity, lowers stress, and makes you a better person
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Going on a good old fashioned road trip is a surefire way to increase spontaneity, lower stress and inspire creativity, which lasts after you return from the trip. It encourages you to explore an otherwise overlooked part…
Man leaves Japan to bike around the world with only $2 and has made it to 37 different countries
BY: ZOE MELNYK After working for his father’s air conditioning company for the majority of his twenties, Keiichi Iwasaki decided to take control of his life before it slip through his fingers completely. In 2001 at the age of 28,…
Cabo Polonio is a completely off-grid village of hippies, fishermen and star gazers
BY: MATTHEW CHIN In Cabo Polonio, located on the eastern coast of Uruguay, sits the perfect beachfront getaway that is completely off the grid. The remote village dates back to the 1960s, where hippies, squatters, and fishermen have been building…
Extreme mountain camping and tree tents are the solution to your adventure-lust
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Most people get queasy looking over the edge of a balcony on a tall building. Fortunately, professional free climbers Tommy Caldwell and his wife Becca, are not most people. They are adventurers and extreme campers, facing cliffs…
We Wish We Lived in These 5 Extraordinary Places
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA All of these locations are Plaid Zebra certified with creative, forward-thinking initiatives that make them incredible spots to call home. 1. Finland—The country with the world’s most wildly progressive education system Finland is often looked up…
This guy shows you how to build a woodland fortress and make nature your bitch (Video)
An un-named YouTuber under the channel, Primitive Technology, builds a two metre by two metre hut in the woods, using exclusively materials resourced from the small patch of forest. In place of an axe, he uses a sharp stone, and…
Suburban skateboarders turned train hopping heroes crossed America and caught it all on film
BY: ROB HOFFMAN There are few places in the West that capture the raw American spirit like the dark corners of train yards and the open boxcars that run a rough hand across the country’s burning plains. Only a month…
Watch a couple’s New Zealand bus adventure and be instantly overcome with wanderlust
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Joe Herbert and his girlfriend Kaitlin Fewings flew to New Zealand to follow their dream of going on an endless road trip with both good friends and the people they meet along the way. Herbert, 27, bought…
An abandoned fishing village in China literally being swallowed by nature (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Gouqi Island, located in the mouth of the Yangtze River, is one of the 18 inhabitable islands of the nearly 400 in the Shengsi archipelago. The islands are surrounded by vast blue sea, golden beaches, deep caves…
There’s a secret country cabin with a private meadow hiding on a roof above Manhattan
BY: EDITORS In New York City, perched above bustling Greenwich Street atop the sixth storey sits a cabin with a grassy meadow and a southern-inspired porch like a Mark Twain wet dream. According to the New York Times, David Puchkoff…
A man rode his bike from Oregon to South America to prove that routine is the enemy of time (Video)
In the 1970s Jedidiah Jenkins’s parents walked across America, ending their journey in Oregon. Years later, Jenkins decided it was his turn to find adventure, so he quit his job to bike around the world. Starting his journey where his…
A humanitarian hairstylist is giving free haircuts to the homeless so they can feel confident
BY: MELISSA GONZALEZ Mark Bustos, a professional hairdresser from New York, found a way to incorporate his passion into helping the homeless. His usual cuts run for around $150 at work, but on Sundays Mark walks the streets and gives the homeless complimentary cuts. The idea…
In 1998, the real life Forrest Gump went for a walk and hasn’t stopped since
BY: JACK M. November 1st, 1998 was a Sunday. Depending on where we were at the time, most of us were probably doing something very ordinary—shopping, watching the football game, walking the dog or making breakfast. It was, however, no…
7 reasons why experiences will make you happier than material things
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Whenever I ask a friend if they would like to accompany me on one the magnificent trips I’ve planned in my head, the answers range from, “It’s just so expensive to fly anywhere,” to a definitive…
You could live at this lakeside eco-hostel made entirely out of recycled materials for $2.50 a day
BY: MATTHEW CHIN In Bolivia, one of the most isolated countries on earth with most of its landscapes untapped, one woman built an environmentally friendly hostel next to the lake. Hermana Libertad dubbed her eco-hostel “Kasa cultural Sol y Luna”…
If you’re sick of high rent, make like this guy and build a tiny house inside a dumpster
BY: MATTHEW CHIN With the price of rent in Brooklyn on the rise—increasing to an average of about $2,700 per month—the cost of living in New York has a hefty price tag. Gregory Kloehn, an artist based in Brooklyn, is…
Piano tuner paid off his student debt in a single year by becoming intentionally homeless (Video)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Piano tuner Richard Roberts lives on the streets of London with nothing but a backpack, bicycle, and sleeping bag. While living with looming student debt in an expensive apartment, Roberts realized that he was “scratching at the…
29-year-old builds a house using shipping containers and now his biggest expense is his phone plan
BY: MATTHEW CHIN PHOTOS BY: Japhet Alvarez/ S7vn Photography In a forest on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada, Joseph Dupuis built a home out of three shipping containers. They cost $3,400 each. Dupuis’ home is a 355 square foot single-storey…
Marie is a middle-class New Yorker who spends less than $5,000 a year by dumpster diving
Bright lights, tall buildings and a constant flow of excitement— at some point or another most people have dreamt of living in the Big Apple. Like Jay Z and Alicia Keys said, it’s where dreams are made and there’s nothing…