- Fear of the unknown can drive ambition.
- You won’t be afraid to try something new that can expand your horizons.
- You are more likely to see the big picture.
- If you travel on vacation, it will improve your overall health.
- Networking can help establish relationships that will benefit other parts of your life.
- Advanced planning, and planning for unknowns, can lead to project completion.
- Done right, immersing yourself in other cultures can lead to a higher level of perspective.
Category: Travel – General (Page 5 of 6)
The Gallop organization, a research firm based in the USA, asked citizens of 142 countries about their confidence in local policing, feelings of safety while walking alone and personal experiences of crime.
Gallup interviewed more than 148,000 people for the 2018 report. Gallup’s rankings are based on residents’ own sense of security.
1. Singapore
2. (tied) Finland, Iceland, and Norway
5. (tied) Hong Kong and Uzbekistan
7. (tied) Canada and Switzerland
9. Indonesia
10. (tied) Denmark, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Austria, China, Netherlands, Egypt
Three friends set out for the far western corner of Mongolia to combine mountain biking and packrafting adventure. The goal was to traverse the Mongolian Altai over 12 days. The only inhabitants of the region are Kazakh nomads.
The Globe and Mail explores the annual reindeer migration in the Northwest Territories, to epic waves on Lake Erie, and cycling the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
According to Blake Snow, as written in Entrepreneur Magazine:
- Inspiration
- Adaptive resilience
- Reading people
- Lead instead of manage
- Exceptional confidence
According to Sophie-Claire Hoeller and Kastalia Medrano, writing for Thrillist:
Kennecott, Alaska
St. Elmo, Colorado
Bodie, California
Ashcroft, Colorado
Cahawba, Alabama
Rhyolite, Nevada
Virginia City, Montana
Garnet, Montana
Elk Falls, Kansas
Batsto Village, New Jersey
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas
To me these sound like wonderful stops for future road trips.
Read the article to learn why they felt these were “eerily abandoned.”
In conjunction with national park week, 122 groups sent a letter to Congress Tuesday urging members to oppose any legislation that might weaken protections of national parks and monuments.
The letter — signed by various groups representing the LGBTQ community, women, disabled Americans, African-Americans and others — calls the shrinking of national monuments an attack on the Antiquities Act.
“Any attack on our public lands, monuments, oceans, and waters is an attack on our communities, our history, our contributions to this great nation, and our culture; and it robs the next generation of a chance to learn from these shared treasures,” reads the letter. “It has often been said that our nation’s public lands system is one of our best ideas; we must now come together to protect these special places.”
The letter comes months after President Trump signed off on shrinking the borders of two national monuments in Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante that were designated under an Obama administration executive order. The current administration has said it is reconsidering the boundaries of other national and marine monuments.
Kris Tompkins and Tom Butler, Washington Post:
“Sustainability” may be a worthy goal, but the word has become cliché, now typically deployed in its adverbial form to modify various nature-exploiting activities like “logging” and “fishing” or the catch-all “development.”
So let’s quit talking about “sustainable” this or that and face the overarching question about the future: Can we create a durable civilization in which humans become good neighbors in the community of life? Where our society is embedded in a matrix of wild nature that allows all creatures — from microorganisms to blue whales — freedom to pursue happiness and raise their progeny in a secure habitat?
Jada Yuan, the New York Times’ 52 Places correspondent, has spent the past three months on the road, visiting a new spot every week, as she has travelled through the Americas for the first leg of her yearlong trip around the world.
In this piece, Jada answers some questions from her readers. (paywall)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Amsterdam, the long way around.
Is this the ultimate glam trip? This doesn’t meet my personal definition of adventure, but we all have different comfort levels.
Prices for the 140-day globetrotting trip, scheduled for 2020, on the 382-passenger luxury cruise ship range from £49,000 (US$69,000.) for a basic cabin to £180,000 (US$253,000.) for a stay in the luxurious ‘owner’s suite’. Per passenger.
The Silver Whisper ship will set sail on January 6, 2020, from Fort Lauderdale in Florida before heading on to Argentina.
From there, the cruise liner will dip down to the Antarctic Peninsula, so passengers can spend a morning soaking in the other-worldly landscape.
A stop at the world’s coldest continent is currently scheduled for February 5, 2020.
Continuing on its journey, the boat will head on to Chile, Tahiti, Singapore, Mumbai, Rome and Dublin before finally docking in Amsterdam on May 25.