If you are a Coffee Nerd like me, you will probably know that most of the world’s coffee is grown within a specific ring around the earth sometimes called “The Coffee Belt” (pictured right). This spans from the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere up to the Tropic of...

Traditional fishing in Indonesia is a based on luck, hard work and sprinkled with magic encounters.

Simulations alarms going off at 2:30 am was the start to a long day out in the Yosemite valley. We choked down some instant oatmeal and instant coffee - only the best for an early morning start.Leaving the parking lot by headlamp at 4 am, we ventured off down the trail towards...

Iceland 2019 Part 3

Apparently 530am on a Saturday is sleeping in for me now, so I decided to be a little spontaneous and pack Niko up for a hike. I didn't hit the road until about 1030am and while I originally wanted to visit Cosens Bay Waterfall, I ended up at the parking lot for Cougar Canyon ...

I felt bad rolling into my campsite at midnight and disturbing other campers with the noise of setting up my tent. Bright stars entertained me throughout the last few hours of my seven-hour drive to West Virginia, so I skipped the turn to camp and headed straight down to the r...

A weekend in Stehekin, Washington

After over seven months in Greece, we said goodbye with heavy hearts! It has been really seven months in this beautiful country, seven months of eating all its delicious food (and gaining all the weight, at least Emy) and seven months of spending time with its wonderful people...

Matthew is a lot more passionate about snowboarding than I am and he's been wanting to get into backcountry stuff. It's hard to do that safely without first taking an AIARE course and going with more experienced people. But since we'd both done Camp Muir before, and were both ...