Fresh from a morning of paddling, strolling around palm-fringed beaches, and snorkeling on surrounding coral reef, our group of 11 sea kayakers sat under a cane shelter on the edge of a large white sand beach on an island in… Read More ›
Adventure Travel
Canoeing the Wild & Scenic Rio Grande River – A Wild West River Adventure
Standing buck-naked in the Rio Grande River, a river-bend upstream of our overnight camp at Lower Falls in the Lower Canyons section of the river between Texas and Mexico, I braced against the current and started wringing the Dr. Bronners… Read More ›
When Up Goes Under and Under Comes Up: Time, Space, and the Current “World Reversal” in Indigenous Peruvian Thought
by Hillary S. Webb, PhD The first time I heard the term yanantin was back in 2000, when I accompanied a group of people to Peru to learn about the indigenous spiritual philosophies as they exist this region of the… Read More ›
Adventures on a Cross-country Road Trip With the Playlist on Shuffle
A cross country road-trip holds a special kind of mystique for many travelers. Friends tell me they’re envious and wish they could go. It resurrects Jack Kerouac…visions of a cross-country motorcycle trip…stories of hitchhiking.…pinings for something done in our past….or… Read More ›
Just Another Day Canoeing on the Kazan River, Nunavut, Canada
It’s around 2:30 am…there’s still some fading twilight casting faint shadows on the stark tundra along the mighty Kazan River in Nunavut, Canada. Its day 14 or 15 (I lost count) of a 3-week canoe expedition – dropped by bush… Read More ›
VENTURE OUTSIDE BLOG: THE PUMA DIARIES 