Trade a couple vacation weeks at your home in Boulder for a villa in Spain? Or perhaps New Zealand, or Croatia is more to your liking. According to Craigslist, home-swap postings have grown by 50 percent in the past year.
Women’s Adventure staffer Joanna Laubscher, 30, didn’t know what she was getting into when she agreed to be “made over” by the Outdoor Divas retail shop in Boulder, CO.
Leave L.A.’s platinum price tag untouched. Instead nurse your economic woes with these stimulus-budget outdoor adventures in the City of Angels.
If watching a movie like A River Runs Through It or Casino Royale spurs your wanderlust, you might leave the theater as a set-jetter. Set-jetters select their vacation destinations based on filming locations.
Looking for the perfect sampling of raw beauty, sick singletrack, family-friendly activities, good eats, and smalltown charm?
Well before dawn on the still streets of Philadelphia, Anne Mahlum hits the pavement, her running shoes echoing down the block. For years the diminutive blond has risen at four thirty in the morning for a solo inner-city jog that serves as part training, part spiritual satisfaction, and part therapy.
Fly-fishing has been a bonding activity for parents and children for ages. And when your child is on the river, she won’t just be getting closer to you, she’ll be building a relationship with nature that could improve her mental and physical health.
Some 60 million plastic bottles are thrown out in the United States every day. Fewer than 1 percent are recycled, and most bottles will never break down in the landfill. Want to make a dent in the problem and do something? Swear yourself off bottled water.
What began as a master degree’s research project about dolphin cognition turned into a 20-plus-year career for whale researcher Meagan Jones, who started her PhD research and her nonprofit organization, Whale Trust, in 2001.
It’s a burgeoning trend to go back to basics. One by one we’re abandoning modern conveniences (from processed foods to SUVs) to return to simplicity, save our planet, and live longer lives. But could the shoes you wear every day (and we’re not talking high-heeled Manolo Blahniks) be costing you your health?
When the economy is in the dumper, the last thing you want to do is spend money. But it’s also the time you most need to escape. Face it: You’d give anything for a week or two away from it all.
Iranian women are kicking their way into world-class competition Iranian tae kwon do champion Sara Khoshjamal literally fought her way to Beijing in 2008, but the side-kicks and jabs thrown by the 20-year-old are only part of a larger battle she fights every day as a female athlete in Iran.
The sun shines some 300 days a year in the town where I’m a local. On most days I get outside to feel the warmth on my cheeks. And when I’m perfectly exhausted, friends meet me at a pub, where I’m received like family. A foamy head of laughter overflows onto the big, wooden tables and, on most nights, settles into deep talks.
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