Adventure
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Discovering Cuba
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During November 2015, I traveled with my family to discover Cuba. We explored Havana, and then got out of the city to travel to the southern coast and around a variety of towns, farm villages, beaches, mountains, and monuments. Here’s how it went… Itinerary Our itinerary took us through Havana, Trinidad, Las Terrazas, Remedios, Santa…
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Competing in the Gociety & Arc’teryx: Urban Adventure Race
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This weekend, the Gociety & Arc’teryx: Urban Adventure Race took place in downtown Denver, Colorado. Myself and three other teammates competed in the race, and finished in just over 3 hours. We had a great time, including biking furiously across Denver, slacklining, inflating standup paddleboards, paddleboarding and tubing down rapids, shooting 3-pointers, and lots of other…
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Discovering Cosmopolitan Lebanon
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I never expected to travel to Lebanon, but after being dropped off at the Amman Airport by a friend I met at the Bedouin Camp, I decided to buy a same-day ticket from Amman to Beirut, and see what happened. Overall, I was extremely impressed with Lebanon. The country and people were absolutely wonderful, and…
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Desert Living in Jordan
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After a brief 10 days of guiding in Israel, I joined up with two new friends to trek from Israel into Jordan. I felt like traveling to Jordan, as well as other Arab nations, was a very important bit of travel to do after touring Israel. With such a heated political situation between many different…
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Next Week I’ll Be Guiding An Adventure Across Israel
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Coming up starting on May 19th, 2014 I’ll be guiding a ten day adventure across Israel with Birthright Israel and Israel Outdoors. During the trip, I’ll be working with two other expert staff members – Allison Bell and Asher Drimmer, traveling with a group of 40 guests. Years ago, I actually participated as a guest…
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I’ll Be Appearing At The New York Travel Festival, Speaking About Adventure Travel in Antarctica
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[column type=”two-thirds”] This year, the New York Travel Festival is taking place April 26-27, 2014 in New York City. I’ve been selected by the organizers to act as the resident expert on Antarctica. Read my bio on the NY Travel Festival website. The New York Travel Festival aims to reinvent the consumer travel show for…
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Traveling Through Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Japan, Summer 2013
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After spending three months living and working in Antarctica with the United States Antarctic Program, I was dropped off in Christchurch in February, 2013, and spent the next three and a half months traveling up through Australia and New Zealand, around Southeast Asia, and finally up to Japan. It was an incredible opportunity, the trip…
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Blogged Travels, 2006-2012
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I travel a lot. And I blog a lot. Since about 2006 when I got a little more serious about my blog, I’ve made an effort to do a writeup for each of my more major trips. In general all of my trip writeups are contained within the Travel category of my blog – however…