Fancy an ice climb? Our most recent EpicThrills trip is the definition of a multi-sport adventure.  Start off with a leisurely ATV excursion across snow covered tundra before shifting into high gear as you gun a snow mobile over frozen lava fields.  Finish off the trip with a crash course in glacier ice climbing and cave spelunking.  Doesn’t sound like a bad weekend to me.  Check out ET’s Adventure Weekend in Iceland »
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Fancy an ice climb?

Our most recent EpicThrills trip is the definition of a multi-sport adventure.  Start off with a leisurely ATV excursion across snow covered tundra before shifting into high gear as you gun a snow mobile over frozen lava fields.  Finish off the trip with a crash course in glacier ice climbing and cave spelunking. 

Doesn’t sound like a bad weekend to me.  Check out ET’s Adventure Weekend in Iceland »

How to Travel the World for FREE So, I’ve decided to finally teach a SkillShare class on independent and affordable, long-term world travel. Aka … how to be a vagabond. Check out the class here »  Skillshare (one of my favorite NYC startups) aims to revolutionize education by giving anyone the platform to be a teacher.  And, after hanging with the Skillshare team last week, they’ve finally convinced me to give it a go!  Quitting my job in 2009 to travel around the world was a natural decision.  I knew it was the right call from the very beginning and I’ve never regretted it.  But, for many, the thought of leaving a secure job at home for extended travel is unimaginably scary. Travel is only for the rich!  How can I afford it? What about my job?  I can’t quit!Who do I go with?  I can’t go by myselfI’ve never traveled for that long.  Where do I stay?  Do I buy all my flights upfront? These are just a sample of the excuses and questions I hear all the time.  And, these are the exact concerns, plus others, that I’ll be addressing in my class.  I’ve thrown up a “pilot” version of the class here to test the concept.  If I get enough people interested, I’ll set some actual dates!  If you’re interested, be sure to click the “add to watch list” button (as shown below).
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How to Travel the World for FREE

So, I’ve decided to finally teach a SkillShare class on independent and affordable, long-term world travel. Aka … how to be a vagabond.

Check out the class here » 

Skillshare (one of my favorite NYC startups) aims to revolutionize education by giving anyone the platform to be a teacher.  And, after hanging with the Skillshare team last week, they’ve finally convinced me to give it a go! 

Quitting my job in 2009 to travel around the world was a natural decision.  I knew it was the right call from the very beginning and I’ve never regretted it.  But, for many, the thought of leaving a secure job at home for extended travel is unimaginably scary.

Travel is only for the rich!  How can I afford it?
What about my job?  I can’t quit!
Who do I go with?  I can’t go by myself
I’ve never traveled for that long.  Where do I stay?  Do I buy all my flights upfront?

These are just a sample of the excuses and questions I hear all the time.  And, these are the exact concerns, plus others, that I’ll be addressing in my class. 

I’ve thrown up a “pilot” version of the class here to test the concept.  If I get enough people interested, I’ll set some actual dates!  If you’re interested, be sure to click the “add to watch list” button (as shown below).

Vagabonding … I dare you to read the following and not immediately book a flight to your dream destination. Travel writer, Rolf Potts, on the dreams of long-term world travelers: “You will stand in awe of the ancients at places like Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, and Machu Picchu; you’ll wander amazed through the exhibits of the Smithsonian, the Louvre, or the Hermitage; you’ll stare in reverence at sunrise over the African Serengeti, sunset on the Australian outback, or high noon in the steamy jungles of Borneo; you’ll listen, rapt, to the otherworldly whistle of Mongolian throat singers, stare in amazement at the swirl of Turkish Sufis, or stomp along madly to the Irish drinking songs. You will shop for Mayan weavings in the markets of Chichicastenango; haggle for damask in the souks of Damascus, or bargain for brocade in the merchant alleyways of Varanasi.  You will bungee-jump the canyons of New Zealand, climb the slopes of Kilimanjaro, or windsurf the Sea of Galilee. You will have impassioned one-week love affairs (with natives and fellow travelers alike) along the Adriatic coast of Croatia, the cobbled streets of Havana, or the neon avenues of Tokyo.  You will sip cappuccino in the cafes of the Italian Riviera, eat fresh fruit in the Sri Lankan highlands, or stare blissfully into space along the clean blue waters of the Costa Rican coast. You will quaff ouzo all day on the islands of Greece, dance to techno all night on the shores of Goa, or lose a week’s sleep in the Carnival madness of Rio de Janeiro.” Rolf Potts is one of my all time favorite travel writers and his first book, Vagabonding:  An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel  was a defining inspiration for my own personal round-the-world vagabonding trip in 2009. As I sit here drinking a hot cup of herba mate and working on this beautiful, fall day in NYC, it’s hard not to trip head first into a state of wanderlust after reading Rolf’s writing.
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Vagabonding …

I dare you to read the following and not immediately book a flight to your dream destination.

Travel writer, Rolf Potts, on the dreams of long-term world travelers:

“You will stand in awe of the ancients at places like Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, and Machu Picchu; you’ll wander amazed through the exhibits of the Smithsonian, the Louvre, or the Hermitage; you’ll stare in reverence at sunrise over the African Serengeti, sunset on the Australian outback, or high noon in the steamy jungles of Borneo; you’ll listen, rapt, to the otherworldly whistle of Mongolian throat singers, stare in amazement at the swirl of Turkish Sufis, or stomp along madly to the Irish drinking songs. You will shop for Mayan weavings in the markets of Chichicastenango; haggle for damask in the souks of Damascus, or bargain for brocade in the merchant alleyways of Varanasi.  You will bungee-jump the canyons of New Zealand, climb the slopes of Kilimanjaro, or windsurf the Sea of Galilee. You will have impassioned one-week love affairs (with natives and fellow travelers alike) along the Adriatic coast of Croatia, the cobbled streets of Havana, or the neon avenues of Tokyo.  You will sip cappuccino in the cafes of the Italian Riviera, eat fresh fruit in the Sri Lankan highlands, or stare blissfully into space along the clean blue waters of the Costa Rican coast. You will quaff ouzo all day on the islands of Greece, dance to techno all night on the shores of Goa, or lose a week’s sleep in the Carnival madness of Rio de Janeiro.”

Rolf Potts is one of my all time favorite travel writers and his first book, Vagabonding:  An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel  was a defining inspiration for my own personal round-the-world vagabonding trip in 2009.

As I sit here drinking a hot cup of herba mate and working on this beautiful, fall day in NYC, it’s hard not to trip head first into a state of wanderlust after reading Rolf’s writing.