“If your life doesn’t fit the mold, that’s wonderful. Celebrate it!”
This is a comment by James Love on the post “Nobody Has a Normal Life“. “Part of what you are talking about is a matter of perspective. Since I was very young I refused to follow the role models. When...
View ArticleJust Pedal, No Push
A Rockies encounter with an old traveller inspires Pat O’Connor to take a life-altering journey. It came as a spasm of fear in the pit of my stomach, an intuition that my life was about to change...
View ArticleFamily Outings: Call for Submission Due 7/24
Trips, travel, secrets, love, discovery, beauty, disaster. What’s your family outing story? — Most of us have childhood memories of trips with our family. Whether it was just you and a parent on an...
View ArticleGoing Step by Step
Being preoccupied with the steps you wish you were taking causes us to miss the beauty and importance of the small ones we can make. — Villers le Lac, Doubs, France. A couple of decisions I just...
View ArticleTravel with Trees
Travelling with trees today around the mountain. John Muir on my mind. ––– “It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never...
View ArticleA Time-Lapse Video Made From Still Photographs
Dustin Farrell stitched together raw still photographs of the Arizona and Utah landscape to create the most amazing time-lapse nature video you’ve ever seen. ___ Photo—Vimeo The post A Time-Lapse...
View ArticleExplore an Epic Ancient Shrine in Kyoto
Expect to have the travel bug after watching the breathtaking views in this video. — The temple seems a natural part of the land! Much more than the shopping malls, hotels, and stations of Kyoto. It...
View ArticleLengths of the World’s Rivers and Heights of the Mountains
Could this have been a geography exam cheat sheet? ––– Check out this vintage image for keeping track of geography. Embedded from BestInfographics.co Photo Credit: Cindy Funk/Flickr The post Lengths...
View ArticleHow India Changed An Englishman
Mick Canning in Sujata village near Bodh Gaya, India. Ten years after I first landed in India, I began to write “Making Friends with the Crocodile“. I wanted to write about the fact that women are...
View ArticleMountains are for Men—They Challenge and Reveal
Embed from Getty Images If I step outside the door of my house in Andalucia, Spain, and look to the left I see a mountain towering over our hamlet. It is a simple, rugged peak over rough country but a...
View ArticleMy Name Is Nra Which Means ‘Not Ready Yet’
The land I come from has mountains that touch the sky, and people who seek God. There are monasteries teaching, what we call, ‘the golden paths of truth’. There is one monastery located at the foot...
View ArticleA Fistful Of Grace
We had spent the morning climbing up to ‘the dojo’, a flat patch of grass about halfway up the mountain. Along the way we had our first conversation in person. I’d only ever known him through his...
View ArticleThe Thrill of the Climb: You Can’t Hold Us Back
Seven feet to go. Sweat dripping. Muscles burning. Grip weakening. Okay, pull it up and finish this thing. Six more feet, five—whoop. Ugh, thirty feet to go. And a new personal record, my biggest fall...
View Article4 Reasons to Travel the World With Your Family
Embed from Getty Images — Some people think a good getaway is staying in a resort hotel in a big city like Las Vegas, where the city never sleeps and you can get food and win big on every corner....
View ArticleThe Depth Of My Awareness
Wikipedia defines self-awareness as "the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals. It is not to be confused...
View ArticleStunning Footage From The Back Of An Eagle Flying Over One Of Europe’s...
Join The Good Men Project Community. “Here’s the thing about The Good Men Project. We are trying to create big, sweeping, societal changes—–overturn stereotypes, eliminate racism, sexism, homophobia,...
View ArticleMost Intense Motorbike Trip of My Life [Video]
Motorbiking the Khardung-La mountain pass in the Indian Himalayas was definitely the craziest and the most difficult motorbike trip of my entire life as we got into a terrible snow-storm at the top of...
View ArticleLiving Life With a Sense of Awe
Teaching gratitude, not “thank you”. —– Every so often, just when I think I’m doing an okay job with this parenting thing, something or someone comes along and shines a light on it all in a brand new...
View ArticleIkigai: The Shin Biyajima Story
— Shin Biyajima, a Japanese snowboarder, shares the intimate story of how he found his Ikigai (生きがい) or “reason for being” through a lifetime of adoration and exploration of his mountainous backyard of...
View ArticleLife as a Sherpa in the age of climate change
By Natasha Vizcarra This story is the first of a series on the experiences of Himalayan Sherpas adapting to a warmer world. Read the accounts of a guesthouse owner, glaciologist and anthropologist....
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