BY: ALEX BROWN A young Californian from Long Beach has captured the imagination of prospective full-time vagabonds and those looking to pursue a 21st century spinoff of the trademark Chris McCandless dream. His name is Patrick Schmidt, and he’s equipped…
This electrician just turned one of Chevy’s classic trucks into the adventurer’s ultimate camper
BY: TREVOR HEWITT A truck rests in a California backyard, a tree growing out its pale blue back, along decades of rust. That’s what Russ Moen saw when he first found what would become one of the most badass personal camper…
Life on the road taught this jewelry maker that life’s purest pleasure is found in simplicity
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Photos via One Heart Design One night while hitchhiking through the middle of Mexico, 15-year-old Walter Munoz was asked by his driver to get out and walk past the immigration officers blocking the road ahead. They would…
Photos will inspire you to escape your cubicle and ride a wild mustang from Mexico to Canada
BY: JONATHAN MOSS There is an untamed nature that wildly bubbles within all of us. Beneath piles of emails and smog-covered skylines, there exists an untainted self that instinctually yearns to return to wide-open spaces. There is a universal…
This glass couple’s hotel hangs on a cliff face 400 ft. above Peru’s Sacred Valley
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE While the breakfast buffets, chlorine pools and tourist tan lines of all-inclusive resorts hugging the equator might be the ideal couple’s getaway for some—there are those who are drawn to vacations that are a little less conventional.…
This man used to hike for two days just to check his emails—then he did something about it
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE The Annapurna Region in Nepal is an incredibly remote region, circled by limestone mountains capped with snow. To this day, Nangi is only accessible by foot. So for six years, once a month Mahabir Pun would hike…
This company will find your perfect adventure-mobile, customize it and deliver it to you
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Under the canopy of night, beneath the smeared light of the Milky Way and facing the red mountains of the south, a silver van sits alone in the vast desert landscape. The inside of the van has…
How Alex Honnold lives out of a solar powered van with a kitchen and storage space (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the rock-climbing world, Alex Honnold has rockstar status from countless free-solo ascents of American landmark walls, including Half Dome, El Capitan and the Castleton Tower. This is to say, he’s climbed thousands of metres of vertical…
Travel is easier than ever for millennials but what that means is harder to decipher
BY: REGAN MCNEILL How many people have heard about their parents’ backpacking through Europe and accidentally eating cow brains for dinner? To my surprise these things actually happened to my mother the nurse (she is cooler than I thought). But…
Watch breathtaking footage of a slackliner conquer the 500 metre “walk of death”
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Balanced between life and death, French daredevil, Théo Sanson finds serenity while staring at the jagged rock face of the desert floor that extends hundreds of metres below him. As the sun leans upon his back and his…
Athlete couple chases adventure and lives out of national parks in a solar power airstream
BY: ROB HOFFMAN From the bedroom of an Airstream, views are panoramic. The valley catching first light from the rising sun over the red rock mountains, this is your alarm system. Still, you wait patiently for the frost to evaporate…
This 27-year-old left school at 18 to travel the world and get a different kind of education
BY: TREVOR HEWITT At the age of 18, Christian Lindgren dropped out of school, let his lease run out and began travelling the globe. Fast forward nine years and Lindgren has visited 97 different countries—from Nigeria to North Korea. “Travelling has…
Hippie vans, off-grid and tiny homes: the New American Dream is measured by Instagram likes
By: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Rachel Bujalski was sharing a tiny apartment near Venice Beach with four other girls and paying $1,200 a month before she discovered how to live for free in California. She would still live…
Photographer takes his rescue dog on epic adventures to let her experience ultimate freedom
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer Troy Moth freed his adopted dog from her past and took her on an adventure that is one for the books. Moth’s dog, Nikita, would tremor in the corner anytime he would show her a leash.…
Photographer hikes 130 km in Northern Sweden to prove a point about workaholic-worship
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ The West is full of workaholics, glorifying “business” and moving at a pace that often forgets to slow down now and then to actually live. Photographer Adelina Darvina realized she had allowed her busy schedule to consume…
Everest pioneer, George Mallory, tells you the meaning of life
BY: TYLER FYFE In 1922, George Mallory was asked by a journalist about why he would risk his life to be the first person to attempt to reach to summit of Mt. Everest? His profound response outlines an undeniably powerful…
6 TED Talks that will show you how to pack your life in a backpack and live your dream (Videos)
BY: EDITORS Collapsing your life into a backpack is equal parts pragmatism and symbolism. While choosing to simplify seems like the most straightforward choice you could possibly make, often the choice to self-determinate comes with a hidden complexity. Where do…
This 78-year-old road warrior should be an inspiration to all of us
BY: JACK M. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn…
This couple has spent 5 years and 80,000 glorious miles circling Europe in a VW camper van
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Lauren Smith and Calum Creasey have spent the past five years circling Europe in sporadic bursts and watching the diverse landscape evolve from behind the windshield of their 1996 VW T4 van. Originally hailing from the United…
NASA is working on a passenger plane that could travel between NYC and Tokyo in 2 hours
BY: ROB HOFFMAN New railway and aircraft technologies never fail to capture the imagination—and the future is bright, with bullet-trains that connect LA to Las Vegas in 80 minutes, and now a new rocket plane that turns an 18 hour…