BY: CONNOR BRIAN Often a sense of struggle settles in when we find ourselves surrounded by the daily routine of urban life. Crammed into a sea of vacant faces in the early morning rush hour, sometimes I can’t help but…
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How to retire at 30 and to pursue your passion
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Getting a post-secondary education, accumulating debt and working from your early twenties to late 60s is a great deal if you love your job, but more often than not, people are unhappy with their careers. In America,…
This former Survivor contestant has been professionally wandering the world for 8 years (Video)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA You’d be hard pressed to find a more interesting vagabond than Cao Boi. Cao Boi, pronounced “cowboy,” is an ex-Vietnam War refugee, former pirate, 2006 Survivor contestant, and served in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.…
If you’re hopelessly addicted to travel add these 20 world festivals to your bucket list
There is no better way for travellers to understand a country than to embed themselves in its cultural celebrations. World festivals are living museums of traditions that let you live and breathe the culture instead of being an onlooker. If…
This Is How Businesses Are Accommodating Your Wanderlust
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC What do you think when you hear the phrase “distributed team?” A distributed team is a work force of a company or organization, distributed globally and running business 99% remotely. The remaining 1% is saved for that…
This 17-year-old dropped out of school to become a modern-day shepherd in the Alps (Photos)
Photographer Clementine Schneidermann began photographing her brother six years ago when he dropped out of school at the age of 17, to become a shepherd and live in the mountains with his two dogs. For the first few years, Nicolas…
Wealthy businessman buys $8 million rescue boat and saves thousands of migrants in makeshift vessels
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Civil unrest in parts of the Middle East has left many citizens to gamble between makeshift boats on the open ocean and the danger ashore. Taking to the sea, many are trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea…
This family of 8 gave up consumerism to live together in a traveling school bus
BY: ZOE MELNYK We’ve all heard the phrase in Fight Club, “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” We hear that, and many of us nod in agreement, but then…
This modern family lives in a treehouse with trapdoors and zip lines (Photos)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN As a child growing up in the suburbs, a treehouse was only a distant fantasy since most trees would be next to a nearby road or in government-owned parks. I would watch shows like Arthur, red with…
Meet the couple that quit their jobs to become travel bloggers and haven’t stood still since (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Jenna Spesard, 28, and Guillaume Dutilh, 30, didn’t want to fall in the mortgage debt hole that many find themselves stuck in with a greased up ladder. She was an executive assistant for a movie studio;…
Vintage mugshots of the gangster kings that ruled 1920s America
BY: LAURA ROJAS If you’ve ever watched HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, a heated drama based around the prohibition era gangsters of the 1920s, you understand why this mafia counter-culture is so endlessly fascinating and was such an integral part of American…
Your one stop guide to ditching your day job, selling your sh*t and taking life on the road
BY: ZOE MELNYK The Internet changed everything. With this in mind, an increasing number of people have innovated ways of taking their lives on the road on the permanent pursuit of adventure. Though it seems unfeasible to ditch your day…
Meet the 200 villagers who live inside an active volcano
BY MATTHEW CHIN In an instant an active volcano can spew molten lava over a neighbouring village incinerating everything in its path and all of its inhabitants—a sure and sudden death. Evidently, the villagers on Aogashima Island—who reside inside of…
Michigan State PhD candidate just statistically-optimized the most epic US road-trip possible
BY: DANIEL KORN Randy Olsen is a Michigan State University doctoral candidate who previously created an algorithm which plots the fastest search path through any page of a Where’s Waldo? book. On recommendation from Discovery, he turned this same skill-set…
How a writer used adventure to bridge the gap between unemployment and her dream job
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Geraldine DeRuiter sat in the middle of a hotel bed in Naples, thousands of miles away from home, attempting to drown her sorrows with sweets and wine when she got the text. After months of waiting and…
Modern nomads formed a tribe to live a traditional Native American lifestyle (Photos)
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Adrain Chesser Surviving in the harsh terrain of the Pacific Northwest, there is a bold tribe of people who live wild and free, practicing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that ancient Native Americans lived centuries ago. Sleeping outdoors or building…
6 reasons why Ottawa is the microadventure capital of Canada
BY: MICHAEL LYONS The idea of a microadventure was coined by author Alastair Humphreys, who suggests that “instead of exotic foreign adventures, I am committed to trying to encourage people to get outside, get out of their comfort zone, go…
A pro-snowboarder abandoned the American Dream for The Great American Landscape (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Over 15 years ago, Mike Basich hit an incredible high in the world of snowboarding, being one of the first boarders to ever hit professional, internationally renowned status. Accompanied by a weighty paycheck of $170,000 a year,…
Family ditches urban society to live in the pristine nature of Italy (Video)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Simone Donati Away from the grip of oppressive cubicles and 9 to 5 grind of urban society, Angelo and Angela live a simple life. The chose to live deliberately— choosing the food they consume, and the way they educate…
This man built a tiny home in the Pacific-Northwest wilderness for under $500
Though the tiny-house movement has attracted major attention in recent years, there are still two major problems that the average person faces when they think about building their own micro home: 1. Though mini-homes cost pennies compared to a mortgage,…