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This article may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Thanks!Do you willingly embrace discomfort and do hard things simply for the sake of doing hard things? I think it’s a great habit to get into, or maybe that’s just the masochistic mountain climber in …
Leaving Puerto Vallarta, and thankfully over our stomach bug, we headed back up the coast and then turned inland toward the town of Tequila. Yes, just like the liquor. The town of Tequila is the capital of tequila production and where you can find the Jose Cuervo factory among a number of other artisan tequila makers. As you approach the …
Wow! What a whirlwind past few days it has been here at our temporary HQ in Mexico City. If you somehow missed it, I launched my new book Big Travel, Small Budget: How to Travel More, Spend Less, and See the World. And it took off like a wildfire… In total, I received 13,248 free downloads of the book over the promotional …
The Dirtbag Manifesto is licensed under a Creative Commons License. If it resonates with you, feel free to share the work anywhere, please just link back here if you don’t mind (www.desktodirtbag.com/manifesto). Or you can download a printable PDF (8.5×11) here. The average life span is 78.7 years (28,744.6 days or 41.3 million minutes) in the United States. Don’t spend your …
John Muir once said “the mountains are calling and I must go” since they called to him so… The saying has almost become a cliche slogan these days, but I must say it certainly rings true to me every time I hear it. It’s something that feels burned into my spirit, especially when I look at Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier …
We’ve been heading out pretty regularly here in Washington State, but it’s winter here. The nights are long and cold–when you don’t have a fire, there isn’t a whole lot to do while camping once the sun falls below the horizon, or sometimes you’re stuck inside with pouring rain. Either way, there are times you just want to crawl inside …
I decided to do the (mostly) Trans-Zion Trek while I was in Southwest Utah–hiking from the northwest corner of the park across to Zion Canyon. This was an impromptu point-to-point hike meaning I’d have to leave my vehicle behind, leading me into my first time hitchhiking which was almost a disaster. After two full days of hiking, I finally …
An in depth look and review of the Travel Blog Success Course and what you need in order to have a successful adventure travel blog.