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Monkey Pool Party!
I just found this clip of what goes down at a fountain at the Sun Temple in Jaipur, India: awesome monkey pool parties. Link trail: Bloggers Filed under: - Armchair Travel, - India, - Videos, Asia,...
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Walking the Nakasendo Way
All photos: Mimi Haddon My friend Mimi, a talented, LA-based photographer, and her husband, Reynald, recently returned from Japan, where they walked the Nakasendo Way, a historic route connecting...
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The Overview Effect: We’re All in This Together
. This video, Overview, documents the idea that seeing an overview of the earth from space has been a consciousness-shifting event for the astronauts that experienced it and, one hopes, for humanity...
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View from the Flightdeck: A380 Approach and Landing, San Francisco
Here’s a really nice video showing showing a Lufthansa Airbus A380-800 on its approach, and landing, into San Francisco. Have a look in case you’re curious about what happens at the front end of the...
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LRV on the Moon, Apollo 16
It’s still amazing to me that we went off-roading on the moon. Here’s some stabilized footage from the Apollo 16 mission. Filed under: - Armchair Travel, - Cars, - Videos, — Vintage, FEATURES, MEDIA,...
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Spring Tide, Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia
The Bay of Fundy, on the inland side of Nova Scotia, has some of the highest tidal fluctuations in the world. Here’s an example from Halls Harbor, near the end of the bay. You probably already know...
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Petting Baby Whales Like It’s No Big Deal
At first this video looks like standard travel fare: some friends going down to Baja, having a look around. Then, at 1:22, they’re in a boat petting a whale. A whale! It’s right next to the boat and...
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Chasing Ice, Trailer
Chasing Ice represents an effort to document climate change first hand. It compresses years worth of melting glaciers into seconds and readily shows how the arctic is changing. If you live near San...
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A Conservative (and Liberal) View of the World
I like a good map. And I especially like these two from the artist, Sandow Birk. They chart stereotypical liberal and conservative views of the world. See “A Liberal Map of the World” after the jump....
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The Library: The Curve of Time
We finished this lovely little book a few weeks ago. It’s a collection of stories, told by Wylie Blanchet, of cruising the coast of British Columbia in the summers of the 1920s, with her five children...
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Winter Riding on a KTM 990 Adventure
The folks over at /DRIVE, and their RideApart team, have put together a video of some Colorado back-country winter riding on board a KTM 990 Adventure. It looked like it was a bit of a handful in the...
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Expo: Backcountry Trip to Utah
There are some great trip reports over on the Expedition Portal Forums. Here are a couple of highlight photos from a guy who posts under the name “Sabre.” He and his wife took an overland trip from...
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The Unimog Museum
Here’s a great Motor Trend video, reporting from the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau, Germany. They delve into the history of the Mercedes-Benz truck line as well as explain how the trucks actually work....
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The Library: We Took to the Woods
We just finished reading We Took to the Woods, by Louise Dickinson Rich. She wrote it in the 1930s while living in the backwoods of western Maine with her husband, son, and a friend of theirs. It...
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Morocco to Mongolia by Land Rover
In 1993 three friends from New Zealand set out from Morocco on what would become an eight-year, eleven-part adventure through Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Mongolia. In their travels they...
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Port Townsend, Washington
We park next to a huge, mobile sling used for hauling boats out of the water. If you’re into into historic towns and boats, and you find yourself in the Pacific Northwest, do yourself a favor and...
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Motorcycling from Alaska to South America
In some ways motorcycles are the ideal overlanding platform. They’re inexpensive, sip fuel, can get through stalled traffic, or down the narrowest trail. In my experience, they’re two to three times...
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Sturgeon’s Mill Open House This Weekend
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and have an interested in seeing huge, circular blades slicing through big redwood logs, head up to historic Sturgeon’s Mill this weekend, west of Sebastopol...
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Crossing the Atlantic Aboard an Ocean Liner
Ocean liners are the largest vehicles ever used for public travel. For example, The Michelangelo, the sistership of the one in the video, was as long as three football fields and weighed as about as...
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California’s State Parks Still Without Long Term Funding
. In May of 2011 the State of California announced a plan to close 25% of its 278 state parks. Shortly thereafter a group of film makers sprung into action, set off on a 3,000-mile journey to visit...
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