Take a Guide or You Might Die

Dan After having limited success independently hiking in Mexico, we were apprehensive about the opportunities that awaited us in Guatemala. […]

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And now what?

«Και τώρα τι;» Να με συμπαθάτε για τον ένα σχεδόν μήνα που απουσίαζα, αλλά λίγο η καλή παρέα που είχα, λίγο η πίεση του χρόνου που είχε η καλή παρέα που είχα, λίγο οι γραφειοκρατικοί γόρδιοι δεσμοί που πρέπει να λύσω αυτή τη στιγμή, με κράτησαν πίσω (όχι πως με χάλασε αυτή η μικρή ανάπαυλα … Continue reading And now what? →

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MY 100 FAVOURITE PHOTOS IN AFRICA

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The Alpine Reunion

“I know it’s somewhere!” she cried out in frustration as she flipped through a stack of twenty full size trail maps, each showing a mess of trails that slipped between valleys and up endless snow-capped peaks. They were some of the best trails in the world. “He’s like a little kid here,” she said as […]

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7 Steps To Making Your Traveling Dreams Come True

We all know these people who talk about leaving their job and going traveling or moving to another country for some time.  Most of them tend to scale their dreams down to either a few months holiday (the braver ones) … Continue reading →

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Pit Stop Varanasi

We reached Varanasi terribly late on the fourth day of our drive to Nepal. Varanasi was to be our much needed intermission point; a place to stretch our legs, build back our endurance, and wash off the caked dirt plastered on our skin. At some point in…

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Take Me Back to Constantinople

From the moment we set foot in Istanbul it felt like we had fallen into a love affair of sorts. It didn’t matter that we had unknowingly stationed ourselves for the next month in Balat, or Little Tehran as it’s known, Istanbul’s most traditional Muslim neighborhood. It took us a while to come to this [...]

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Pit Stop Varanasi

We reached Varanasi terribly late on the fourth day of our drive to Nepal. Varanasi was to be our much needed intermission point; a place to stretch our legs, build back our endurance, and wash off the caked dirt plastered on our skin. At some point in…

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Hampi Campers

A few weeks back when we went to our friend Santhanam’s house for coffee I brought along my India map, and he offered his advice on the must-see destinations in South India. While we sipped on coffee in his bedroom we worked through the map. He highlighted several places on the map...
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Cambodian Dolphin Hunt

Brad had finally reached defeat. His stomach gurgled and groaned and kept him horizontal for 24 hours straight. He lay in bed exhausted by nausea and uninterested in exploring the world around him. He wasn’t the only one. Four of the seven people in our group (myself included) came down...
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A Chance Encounter

It all started with a note clipped under Nacho’s windshield wiper. Hello friends- I am a fellow Volkswagen T3 owner and have some questions for you about your set up. Please call and we will meet up. – Soenke We found the note shortly after we had wandered out of our hotel and into...
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The Saga of the Magic Worm

The silkworm is exhausted after five long days of work. It is happy and warm and lays there in the darkness, dreaming of the wings that are soon to blossom from its back. It will never be a monarch butterfly, but nevertheless, it will have new freedoms…

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The Plain of Jars

In the distance the road split and the orange blob on the back of the motorcycle taxi veered left. I pointed ahead and motioned to Brad to follow. “If we keep that monk within sight we’ll find the temple.” The rural road out of Phonsavan quickly turned to red dirt. It was...
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The Ill-Fated Jungle Trek

“Jungle trekking, yeah!” Sheena was visibly excited on the morning that we awoke for our ill-fated day of jungle trekking. She’d picked up a new pair of trekking boots after we left Argentina, and now walked in circles in the parking lot of Thailand’s Khao Sok National...
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