Category archives for Travel
Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 3, 2011 
If you’re like us, you’re more than envious of Anthony Bourdain’s life of exploring fascinating cultures and people of the world while tracking down the most delicious, authentic food on Earth—and getting paid to do it. But the jealousy doesn’t prevent groupie-like devotion to his Emmy-winning TV show No Reservations, now in its seventh season…
GPS Goes Social: Delorme and SPOT Bring Facebook and Twitter to the Backcountry
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 5, 2010 Wouldn’t it be nice if you could update your Twitter feeds and Facebook pages via GPS units when we are far afield? Well, the wait is over. By Keene Haywood As the social networking scene explodes around us, it seems there is nothing it has not touched in our lives–except for maybe those venturing into…
Norway is the Most Desirable Place to Live, According to UN
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 9, 2009 Norway, the land of fjords, Vikings, vodka, and blonde hair, is now also the most desirable place to live, according to the United Nations. The UN’s Human Development Report 2008/2009, done annually, ranks Norway numero uno because of the country's human development index ratings, which evaluates certain criteria, including educational factors, gender equality, and life…
The Amazing Race: A Previous Winner Tells All
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 27, 2009 Imagine a chance to travel all over the world with your best bud and share a million dollars—if you can handle the obstacles that true adventure travel throws at you. Well that’s The Amazing Race, which pits teams of two against each other as they race around the globe for the pot of gold at…
Sebastian Junger, Scott Anderson, Chip Brown Read ADVENTURE
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 8, 2009 
Some of our favorite writers will be reading from our new anthology, The New Age of Adventure, next Monday night at the Half King in New York City. Here's the lineup: SEBASTIAN JUNGER, reading from “The Lion in Winter,” his profile of Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan warrior who fought the Taliban in the years before September 11, 2001. SCOTT ANDERSON,…
Our Favorite Adventurers on Twitter – Updated 9/2
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 1, 2009 Who better to follow in 140 characters or less than our favorite explorers? We've put together a roster of tweeters, from eco-activist David de Rothschild to alpinist Ed Viesturs, to keep an eye on the ever-changing world of adventure. This list is by no means final, so keep checking back to see who's been added.…
New Guide to the National Parks Now Online
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 22, 2009 Text by Laura Buckley When planning a trip to the National Parks you will inevitably have questions–and the National Parks Owner's Guide 2009, a comprehensive online trip planning tool from the National Parks Foundation, will help you answer them. How long will it take to hike to Fort Bowie and back in Fort Bowie National…
Send Yourself to Space… For a Price
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 21, 2009 Text by Joe Battle There are many different paths to take to float with the stars, but a majority of them revolve around a wallet that could plug a black hole. One of the leaders in promoting private space travel is a company known as Space Adventures. A meager $100 million will “secure” your personal…
Travel Tech: Twitter Apps For the Adventure Set (For 3GS iPhone)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 23, 2009 Text by Laura Buckley. Also see Steve Casimiro top 20 travel apps. Two very interesting things happened last week: Twitter made front-page headlines, showing skeptics just how useful the micro-blogging tool can be to connect people on the move in distant places; and Apple released the speedy new iPhone 3GS. If Twitter can effectively organize demonstrations in Iran, it…
Nat Geo Explorer Mireya Mayor on Expedition Africa, Mark Burnett’s New Show
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 29, 2009 Anthropologist, television host, former NFL cheerleader, National Geographic Emerging Explorer . . . Mireya Mayor is many things. A homebody isn’t one of them. In the past year, she has led expeditions to Madagascar (where, in 2003, she discovered the smallest primate on Earth, the mouse lemur) and helped set up a program to protect…
The ADVENTURE TOP 10: Summits in North America
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 19, 2009 Text by Steve Rollins, edited by Andrea Minarcek. See more Top 10 lists. If you’ve been following coverage of this year’s Everest season—now in full swing—it’s probably put you in the mood to climb a challenging, brag-worthy peak of your own. Not everyone, we know, has the ability—or the time, or the cash—to bag the big…
Adventure in 60 Seconds: Swine Flu—What Travelers Need to Know
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 28, 2009 Read the updated version of this story >> Text by Keith Rutowski Update: The U.S. has now reported its first death due to swine flu. A 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the virus. Read the Reuters article >> You'd just booked a steal of a trip to Cabo for some much-needed R+R—before the…
The ADVENTURE Top 10: American Adventures (in Video!)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 28, 2009 Text by Andrea Minarcek, see more Top 10 listsRankings by Robert Earle Howells, Jim Gorman, and the editors For our 10th anniversary issue (April/May 2009, on newsstands now) we drew on a decade of experience to find the 50 best adventure trips—in our own spectacular backyard. Heli-skiing, surfing, climbing, pedaling, and paddling excursions across the…
Travel Tech: Will e-Readers Transform Travel?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 18, 2009 Text by Keith Rutowski; Photography courtesy of Amazon You're preparing for a grueling, 14-hour flight to India for a tiger safari. A shrewd traveler, you know it's going to take more than an iPod to get you through this one. And besides, you've been avoiding that bedside stack of literary classics for too long. There's…
Video: Kiteboarder Photographs Whale Encounter
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 12, 2008 Photoshoppers step aside: These images were created with old-fashioned ingenuity—and luck. While kiteboarding in New South Wales, high school photography teacher David Sheridan mounted a camera, set to shoot ten frames a second, to his kite and recorded this incredible encounter.
Headliners: Adventure in 60 Seconds
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 28, 2008 A roundup of the latest adventure news, by Mindy Zacharjasz If you fall off that horse… keep on trying to row across the Pacific. At least that’s the strategy for Dutchman Ralph Tuijn, whose cross-Pacific Zeeman Ocean Challenge came to an end last week after two aborted attempts (which cost him his solo, non-stop goal)…
News: Russia’s Kamchatka Opens Up
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 14, 2008 Claim a first ascent on an inactive volcano with new regular flights to the Pacific Ring of Fire. Text by Kirkpatrick Reardon It just got easier to explore it on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the most volcanic region on Earth with 29 active volcanoes (several of them over 10,000 feet tall), rivers rushing with 30-inch rainbow…
Expedition News: Exploring Gabon’s Subterranean Caves
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 30, 2008 This summer, National Geographic Young Explorer grantee Trevor Frost will lead a six-week expedition to Gabon in search of undocumented caves, archaeological discoveries, amazing photographs, and underground kayaking. In addition to finding clues about life in the cradle of humankind, their efforts could help Gabon’s unexplored subterranean caves receive UNESCO World Heritage Site status. Follow…
The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro
Belkin Phone, SkypeOut Keep Money In
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 20, 2008 Text and photo by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro Twenty years ago, my photographer friend Larry Pierce called his wife from his hotel room on a remote island in Tahiti, talked for 15 minutes, and unknowingly racked up a $400 bill. Ouch. Last week in New Zealand, I chatted with my family until even the…
The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro
Another Roadside Attraction: Montezuma Valley, California
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 30, 2008 Photo by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro
The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro
Molokai Wins Development Fight, But At High Cost
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 24, 2008 Text and photos by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro The hand-painted signs are posted on trees, mail boxes, and front porches all across Molokai. “No to La’au Point”, they say, or simply, “No”. Living’s not so easy on the Friendly Isle, where jobs are scarce for the 7,500 residents, as I found out when the…
The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro
Surf and Ye Shall Be Asked: The Curiously Interrogative World of Gabe Sullivan
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 23, 2008 Text by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro. Photographs by Sierra Sullivan, Tom Servais (top, bottom) Flipping through Surfer Magazine goes something like this: blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, shocking lime green, blue, blue, blue. There in each issue, jumping out from Surfer’s sea of epic waves and countless board short ads, is a rusty…
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Into the Wild Flowers
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 7, 2008 Text and photographs by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro The desert in bloom is a terrestrial Milky Way, the bright blossoms standing in sharp contrast to the dry vacuum surrounding them. Across the Southwest, last winter’s consistent rains have created one of the best wild flower seasons in years. And while flower sniffing has always…
