BY: ZOE MELNYK If for some reason you need another reason to travel besides the thrill of adventure and the opportunity to explore the hidden corners of the world and your mind, try your health. Besides the obvious psychological benefits…
The top 5 vacation destinations for travellers addicted to the rush of adrenaline
BY MATTHEW CHIN This is not for the faint of heart, the couch-potatoes or the worry warts. This is for the bold, for the rebellious, and for those unafraid of staring death right in the face and laughing. If you…
If you’re a born traveller, science says you may have the “wanderlust gene”
BY: MATTHEW CHIN If you’re the kind of person that feels compelled to travel—bound to an uncontrollable urge that flows through you, motivating you to drop everything and explore the world—chances are that desire is actually embedded in your genetic…
This 22-year-old is the Robin Hood of the travel industry and can save you up to 80% on airfare
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA In the ultimate David and Goliath battle, Aktarer Zaman stood before the lawyers of some of the biggest players in the travel industry for uncovering a dirty little secret that could save consumers up to 80%…
This 25-year-old is the youngest person to walk the entire circumference of the planet
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Andrew Siess, a 25 year-old from Minnesota, just became the youngest person in the world to circumnavigate the globe entirely on foot. Born out of a recklessness passion for the road, for Siess, his journey wasn’t about…
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,…
Skateboarding coach used travel and ayahuasca to overcome substance abuse
BY: MICHAEL LYONS In this world of post-secondary degrees and political correctness, Netflix and net income, self-help books and selfie-sticks, iPhones and IPAs, crushing banality and cutting mediocrity, most of us just want an authentic experience; for a moment when…
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 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…
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;…
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…
Revolutionary three-storey plane will be the first to fly with zero carbon emissions
BY: ZOE MELNYK A new plane could be taking off in the next fifteen years that will hold up to 800 people, use ultra light and noiseless material, and—believe it or not—release no trace of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.…
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…
Earth porn will make you lust for nature (Photos)
To exist even for a speck of time in this vast universe is a superb gift. This tiny splinter of time that we occupy is our only chance at life. The universe will continue, indifferent to our brief existence. Yet…
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…
Here’s how to play the travel industry and fly around the world for free
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…
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.…