In her 15-year career as a professional adventure racer, Robyn Benincasa has competed in close to 40 expedition-length events—gnarly, multiday, multisport killers such as Primal Quest and Eco-Challenge.
When I land in Central America, I’m whisked away to a Hampton Inn with a Denny’s next door. The lobby, with its computer workstations, elevators, pool, and gym, could be anywhere—Houston or Toledo.
Your summer visit to Yellowstone or Yosemite—or even to San Antonio Missions or Ellis Island—may not feel like the culmination of a historic struggle, or exercising your democratic rights. But The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a 12-hour documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, might change all that.
On the other side of a crackling campfire, a good friend of mine— who happens to be adorable and brilliant and hilarious—was cracking us all up with his impression of the dirtbag ski bums he’d known back in Vail.
Rick Bass is the author of 22 books, and his stories have won the O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize. Here he turns his attention to his birthplace, Texas. In “The Farm,” he tells a story of his mother, his children, and the link to a place that binds them all.
Being a locavore is all the rage right now, but the reasons behind it go well beyond health and supporting local businesses.
Ask a child where corn comes from, and he’s likely to answer “Safeway” or “Albertsons.” As moms, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and mentors, we have a unique opportunity to let kids in on the real dish—the hands-on way.
Be daring or be cautious? Every woman worth her salt has encountered a scenario like this: My biking buddies and I were cruising downtrail when we came to a stream. George Anadiotis, the more advanced rider of the bunch, suggested that we could ride down to find a better crossing, but if we were really hardcore…
Ask a handful of Americans what comes to mind when they think of Canada, and you’ll get: Mounties, hockey, nice folks, cold weather, big mountains, free health care, and, oddly enough, more than a few shrugs. With an area of almost 4 million square miles and a little more than 32 million people, Canada is the second-largest and least densely populated country on the planet.
Alison Gannett has thunder thighs. Twenty years ago a statement like that would have ripped her apart. But now, at 43, Alison credits the mean-spirited, childhood taunts about her body with helping her become who she is today: a world-class athlete and fearless warrior who fights to implement solutions to climate change.
Suzanne Sonye takes the seat across from me at a side street coffee house. She’s here to talk about a painful experience. She orders nothing, not even water. It’s clear by her uneasy posture and strained eyes that this is going to be difficult for her. But that hasn’t stopped the 46-year-old before.
Why my 62-year old mum and I choose to shoulder 40-pound backpacks across mountains in bad weather, slather ourselves with bug spray, subsist for days on dehydrated pasta, and sleep in bunkhouses with snoring, equally smelly strangers baffles me.
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.
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