BY: IAN MASSE Dark days have been upon us all. It’s nearly impossible to escape the narrow passages of sorrow that inevitably set us off course into a sea of despair. While some cases may be mild, and others severely…
In 2017, the government is making admission to all of Canada’s national parks free
BY: JESSICA BEUKER 2017 marks Canada’s 150th birthday, and Parks Canada has an early birthday present for all Canadians. In an initiative brought forward by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Parks Canada is waiving all park entrance fees for a year.…
This Canadian couple ditched the 9-to-5 world and became permanent (and well-paid) nomads.
By: JACK M. Their story began seven years ago. Dariece Swift and Nick Wharton had just returned from a mid-winter holiday in sunny Mexico to the cold reality of February in the Canadian prairie province of Alberta. From sunshine and…
This 29-year-old converted a school bus into an off-grid, ’70s-style living room on wheels
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…
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 guy turned a 1970s retro caravan into a darkroom to take his photography on the road
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photographer Paul Alsop lives on the island of New Zealand, where finding anything ‘wet plate’ related is a mission. There is no online community, such as eBay, to search for old supplies, and the chemicals have to…
The Lotus Belle tent will let you escape the rent trap for forest luxury
BY: EDITORS The feeling of tentatively stepping out of a dew-damp sleeping bag into daybreak, then stretching a spine like a twisted slinky is all-too-familiar for anyone who has ever slept in a tent on uneven ground. That’s why New…
Mortgage-phobia is changing the way young couples co-exist
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Ice covers the winding Snoqualmie Pass in the early winter months, granting only the riskiest of travellers access over the 3,022 foot elevated summit and through to Seattle’s downtown core. The area is part of the Cascade…
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.…
Cabin Porn will make you lust for Mother Nature and inspire you to build your own getaway
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Cabin Porn images courtesy Little, Brown and Company, © 2015 by Zachary Klein In the middle of windswept plains, embedded within a staggering mountain view sits a cabin so beautiful that it could have stained the bed sheets…