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The Adventurer’s Handbook is entertainingly subtitled, “From surviving an anaconda attack to finding your way out of the desert,” which carries the implication that it’s another one of those worst-case survival manuals that reminds you to clench your butt cheeks when you dive off a cliff so water doesn’t rush into your nether regions and burst your … Read more »
A friend of mine has a very specific definition of adventure: It must involve danger to life and limb. Mountain climbing? Check. Diving with sharks? Check. Taking on a new assignment at work? Nothing doing.
For me, adventure has always included all of the above. Even taking a walk through my neighborhood has an air of adventure when I begin, not knowing what route I’ll take … Read more »
Crime scene tape. Photo: Alan Cleaver / Flickr Creative Commons
The underground magazine Vice will be getting its own show on MTV. Magazine founder Shane Smith brings his trademark biting tone, irreverent take on current events, and in-your-face honesty to the small screen. Here’s an article from MTV.com with more details:
‘The Vice Guide to Everything” goes everywhere, because no one else does
True … Read more »
Hendri Coetzee
Note: Earlier this month, global adventurer Hendri Coetzee was killed by a crocodile while leading a kayaking expedition down the Ruzizi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Guidebook writer and no-baggage travel pioneer Jonathan Yevin was friends with Coetzee, and he sent me a heart-felt eulogy that explores Hendri’s unique … Read more »
Latourex, short for Laboratoire de Tourisme Experimental, is a couple of French charmers who developed their experimental travel techniques to make their trips more interesting. Instead of just doing the same old same old — go to a place, look at its museums, drink coffee at coffeeshops, attempt to blend in while suavely writing in your journal, hit on local members of your preferred gender — they offer numerous travel experiments one can perform, in … Read more »
You have a good start. Anyone who’s even considered taking a long-term travel break, or even several shorter ones, has to have an adventurous spirit. But how do you stack up against other folks looking for adventure?
A post on Gadling this week discussed a recent survey commissioned by Intrepid Travel, which found that folks in the United States lagged behind Kiwis, Aussies, … Read more »
As you might guess from the title, Don’t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs, She Thinks I’m The Piano Player In A Whorehouse, is a bit of a quirky exploration of the itinerant oil rigging lifestyle.
As vagabonders, we get pretty focused on how we can work and travel; can we write for travel magazines? Program software from Bangalore? Work in internet pornography anywhere with a steady internet connection and a webcam? We get … Read more »
Unless you’ve been living in a place where popular media does not go (like with my mother), you might have noticed that Elizabeth Gilbert’s surprise hit memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” has been made into a movie starring Julia Roberts…and it’s getting released, on slightly different days, around this time in lots of different countries.
The book 9and presumably the film) divides Gilbert’s life-changing journey into three segments: robust Italy (the “eat” section, where Gilbert reports … Read more »
Shortly after last week’s column which highlighted how Burning Man is like vagabonding, we loaded up our hatchback and drove to the event, about two hours north of Reno, Nevada, down a small two lane road that runs past deep blue Pyramid Lake, majestic mountains, and salt flats. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, and our “Summer Camp” theme camp at 3:50 & Athens was set up by Sunday evening.
I noted that creative … Read more »
My fellow contributors and I have made a few mentions of Burning Man when describing other extreme festivals such as Couchsurfing events or the Love Parade. 
However, those readers that have never been to “a Burn” may not realize that it’s much more than just a week-long party, and in fact shares several fundamental principles with the practice of vagabonding.
Creative problem solving – … Read more »