BY: SINEAD MULHERN A 28-year-old American journalist is proving that travelling the world doesn’t have to leave your wallet feeling light. In fact, he’s going to 13 countries for nearly zero cost reported Business Insider. Scott Keyes is a magazine…
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How to make $250,000 a year from dumpster diving
BY: MATTHEW MCGLOUGHLIN It started nine years ago while digging through a corporate client’s garbage. While looking for information that could cultivate a cyber attack—and finding plenty of it—Matt Malone got curious. Taking a peek inside the dumpster behind OfficeMax,…
This college student saved $8,000 a year by building his own dorm in the woods
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Imagine there is no electricity, and no running water. There are no cell phones, laptops, or televisions—no honking cars or blazing sirens. In the woods you would be one with nature, living simply and focusing on self-fulfillment,…
This is what it is like to get paid to live alone on a mountain (Video)
BY: LAURA ROJAS If you’ve ever read popular works of American literature, namely Jack Kerouac or Edward Abbey, you’ve likely encountered the romanticized existence of a fire lookout as a possible occupation. This is as direct as it sounds— a…
Photos capture hermits who have escaped society to live peacefully in the wild
BY: CONNOR BRIAN At certain moments we all feel the desire to escape from it all. Even if it’s only a brief walk or a long drive through the countryside, there is truly no greater companion than ourselves. Yet there…
Over 50 years, this man has travelled to every single country in the world
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Pick a country. Close your eyes and try to picture it. If you are imagining a 4 star all-inclusive resort you’re way off base. When Albert Podell closes his eyes, there’s not one country he can’t picture.…
Why you should travel the world with your lover before you say “I do”
BY: RYAN BOLTON “Take that person [you love] and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world…. And if when you come back to JFK and you’re still in…
This company will pay you $22,000 to take an epic summer adventure and blog about it.
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Imagine getting paid to hike, swim, camp and climb. That’s the job that Canadian outdoor brand Woods is offering to two individuals this summer. The brand is looking for two people to take on travelling the 17,000…
This filmmaker goes BASE-jumping with his dog in a wing suit (Video)
Scrolling past the caption “skydiving dog” on your newsfeed likely conjures expectations of a video ripe with campy-dog close ups, jump-cuts and a cartoon soundtrack more relevant to a TVO Kids show than a BASE-jumping short. And yet, Dean Potter…
Together a blind man and double amputee have planted over 10,000 trees in China
“I am his hands, and he is my eyes” says Jia Haixia, 53, who was born with a cataract in one eye and left completely blind after work-related accident in 2000. He talks of his symbiotic relationship with his long…
Watch Travis Pastrana jump out of a plane without a parachute
Travis Pastrana has lived most of his life either sailing through the air or spiralling upside down. So when he decided to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, he probably thought of it as just another checkmark on…
This man single-handedly planted a tropical forest larger than central park (VIDEO)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In 2009 local photographer and journalist, Jitu Kalita, discovered a dense forest at the centre of Majuli Island’s barren western shores. As Kalita explored the shoreline, he was nearly attacked by a man who had mistaken him…
Crazy urban explorers free-climb to the tip of the second highest building in the world (VIDEO)
Last year two Russian ‘rooftoppers’ took on the Shanghai Tower, the second highest building in the world, free-climbing to the top and capturing the ascent with GoPros strapped tight to their foreheads. The climbers, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov, represent…
If you want to live in Miyakejima, Japan you must carry a gas mask at all times (Photos)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN About 160 kilometres south of Tokyo is the town of Miyakejima, sitting at the base of the volcano that shares its name. This town is covered with a cloud of harmful sulphur dioxide gas, spewed into the…
This 100-year-old woman celebrated a century by skydiving and swimming with sharks
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Georgina Harwood just turned 100. For her birthday, she decided to take the celebrations to the extreme. When she turned a century old, she went skydiving. Two days later, she swam with sharks. Her skydive took place…
Chris and Eve are a drug-addicted couple living in New Jersey’s most notorious slum (Photos)
Written and photographed by: Christopher Occhicone Tent City, which had up to 100 residents at any given time, could be many things to many people. Some residents had planned badly, fell on hard times, and ended up in TC. They used…
Bike campers are giving nomads a new way to travel
BY: ZOE MELNYK A number of modern nomads are taking minimalist living one step further past the van life and are instead slowly converting to the new idea of bike campers. Bike campers allow travellers to venture anywhere they physically…
Here are some places where you can get land for free.
BY: DANIEL KORN My generation is faced with an unparalleled financial crisis. Real estate costs are on the rise—a detached home in Toronto now has an average cost of just over a million bucks—at the same time that we’re projected…
An airplane was salvaged for $2000 and transformed into a stunning waterfront home
BY: ZOE MELNYK What can you do with $30,000 and some open space? Buy a Boeing 727, convert it into a home, and be the coolest neighbor in the world. It was a stroke of luck that the Boeing airplane…
Why “Sugar Babies” are selling sex to pay off their student debt
BY: DEXTER BROWN With daunting and insurmountable college debt, some young and starving students have turned to SeekingArrangement.com to find a sugar daddy or sugar momma (a wealthy, older person looking for love or companionship) to help pay for their college…