Archive for November, 2008
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’ve got a wandering eye.
Despite the stable of ponies in my basement, I’m always glancing sideways when I see a hot young thang roll by. Bikes just do it for me. I can’t help myself.
Today’s heart-stopper is the Traitor Cycles “Ruben” with Oil Rig… Read the rest
The pumpkins at Kruger’s Farm are rotting. Slow decay. Fuzzy green beards where children might have carved geometric faces. These are Halloween’s rejects. Piled gourd-corpses littering the fields and lumped next to abandoned red wagons.
It’s colder than a well-digger’s elbow and the cornfields are blanketed in low fog. Beyond… Read the rest
Alexandre Poussin is a French adventurer and author who, with his wife Sonia, trekked from the Cafe of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee. Along the epic journey the couple wrote, photographed and filmed, documenting their travels and turning them into a book, movie and television series.
I had… Read the rest
My fingers are freezing, enough that it’s getting difficult to push the shutter button on my camera. But I keep snapping photos because I feel like this is a once in a lifetime moment; it’s early morning, the lake is perfectly still and I am the only one walking the… Read the rest
… Read the restLast week Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg were announced as National Geographic Adventurers of the Year. We’ve been following Gregg and Deia for quite some time now, and beyond being absolute Wenders, they’re also great people. When they came to Portland to give a presentation at REI, we sat down
Where: Mt. Shiretoko, Hokkaido, Japan
Wender: Tim Patterson
Watanabe-san is 56 years old and can hike faster and farther on steep trails with a heavy pack than any college kid I know. He started studying English at age 50 in order to travel more easily, and loves to take the… Read the rest
My hair doesn’t hang down to my waist, nor do I have flawless brown skin, but that wasn’t going to stop me from wanting to learn more about the enchanting Tamure, or ‘Ori Tahiti’–the traditional Tahitian dance that Katie and I had witnessed at the Heiva celebration. So at 3:30pm… Read the rest
iWend… Read the rest is the place to get inspired to pursue your next adventure. From feature pieces on people out voyaging around the world to reader submitted travel narratives, iWend is the place to share, learn and get stoked on global journeys. Keep an eye on what we got going on!
