BY: MARLEN MUELLER AND THOMAS ADLER Based in Berlin, we are both freelance photographers and designers. In 2015 we founded Urban Tenting – the digital home of our camping and hiking travels. In September 2015 we took a road trip…
How the strangers you meet while travelling are just like Schrödinger’s cat
BY: EMILY PLEASANCE It was the summer of 2012 in Toronto, and temperatures were reaching all-time highs. The pavement was hot, the people were sticky, and everyone was minding their own business trying to cool down in Union Station while…
How a rusty, old Volkswagon bus led this adventure-seeking couple to ultimate happiness
BY: SARAH AND MATT PARK I wake up startled with my face smooshed against the curved side of the van wall. Matt is twitching in his sleep again. Our bed is only slightly wider than a twin-sized mattress, which means…
How I learned that being a full-time traveller isn’t always freedom and adventure
The moment I realized the dream was getting away from me, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Wrocław, Poland, a city with a name that sounds nothing like what you’d expect: vrat-swaf. We were on a long weekend trip…
5 countries you should visit to escape Valentine’s Day dreadfulness
BY: CAROLINE ROLF You rubbed your bleary eyes as you awoke this morning, hung over from last night and in desperate need of brunch. You made the mistake of venturing to a brunch spot today and it became painfully obvious…
32 states, 13,000 miles, in an epic time-lapse that will inject life into your soul-sucking weekday (Video)
BY: EDITORS Two years ago, Shane Black was being suffocated by his comfort-zone. Everything around him seemed so familiar that it all blended together, his days passing like a blur in a passenger’s window. When humans resign their lives to…
These photos prove the Canadian Rockies are infinitely more glorious than Yosemite
BY: ALEX BROWN Most of the time, if you’re looking for sexy nature photos on the internet, or a photographer wants to wow you with a landscape shot, or a “modern website” needs a shiny background photo for their homepage,…
How this couple travelled to 50 countries and five continents on $8 a day in their VW van
BY: ALEX BROWN Their story is familiar to anyone with itchy feet to travel, or those who are feeling the weight of the office grind bearing down on them and are looking for a way out. Hailing from Poland, Karol…
Is Thailand a traveller’s paradise? I saw the Mafia kick a backpacker’s face into concave mush
BY EMILY PLEASANCE Eighteen years old and just finishing high school, Kim left her family home in Australia to travel the world. She hadn’t a clue what path to take in university, so she gave up academics as her source…
Looks like Amsterdam is cracking down on your trip itinerary
BY: CAROLINE ROLF There is little that parallels the feeling of starting a new adventure in a foreign place. You’ve just landed, picked up your luggage in record time, now all that’s left to do is grab a map and…
Capturing 50 reasons to hike Angels Landing
BY: DONNY Earlier this year, my friends and I decided to road trip to southern Utah and Arizona. Zion National Park was one of the top places we HAD to visit. Zion is an adventurer’s paradise with tons of hiking,…
The Pros and Cons of Traveling Alone
There’s something about traveling alone that’s hard to explain. It’s a pretty unique way to see the world. Generally, as people in an interconnected society, we grow up relying on others for assistance and waiting for or compromising with them.…
Meet the future Olympian who lives out of his van on America’s most desired coastline for free
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Stephan Shay is a runner and Olympic hopeful. Shay has a comparatively invisible ecological footprint than the average American. He is frugal, so he enjoys more financial freedom that many. But to many people, upon seeing Shay…
Feel like every day is the same? These photos will give you a catalogue of escape-plans
BY: ALEX BROWN All Images © Andrew Waits Many people, like Scott Mooiy, are turning to a new vision of the American Dream, one that is not wealth-centered, but where experience takes precedence. This new dream is valuable in its…
Journalist Paul Salopek is three years into his seven-year “Out of Eden Walk” around our planet
By: JACK M. Paul Salopek is a 53-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist. He has worked with such prestigious publications as the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and he has won not one, but two, Pulitzer Prizes –…
What 2 million steps through Ethiopian mountains untouched since biblical times looks like
BY: MARIO GERTH PHOTOS BY: MARIO GERTH Dessda, our chocolate brown donkey is scratching with her hooves in dry sand. On her back we arrange our luggage and equipment for the next four weeks. We are ready. And we are…
Here’s an essential hostel packing list for the well-prepared adventurer
BY: Taylor on A Trip For a princess like myself, a hostel stay can be either lovely or terrible depending on how much I am inconvenienced. For your peace of mind and your personal hygiene, make the below a necessary packing…
Photos reveal an underground society that has returned to the serenity of the uncharted woods
BY: CAROLINE ROLF All images by: Eric Valli Would you be willing to give up technology, labels and social media to minimize your impact on the earth? French photographer, Eric Valli has had great commercial success, but this set of…
Here are some of the great (and not so great) things you can expect when staying in a hostel
BY: Taylor on a Trip I’ve already dissected some of the stereotypes about hostels that are untrue. Now it’s time to flip the coin and see which ones are. 1. You will meet some incredible people What a better place…
Don’t let these five misconceptions about hostels ruin your travel experience
BY: Taylor on A Trip As we all know, finding accommodations when you don’t know anyone in your travel destination can be super expensive. That being said, it continues to blow my mind that so many people believe they can’t travel unless they…