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Top 25 Dive Travel Questions, #13 Live Aboard or Land Based?

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Should I dive land based or live aboard? THIS is the age old diving question isn’t it and why it is one of our top 25 most asked questions.  I think I would answer this question with more questions… Do you have a non diving partner/spouse? If so and they want to do ANYTHING besides [...]

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The Gift of Summer

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Summer always has a certain feel. It reminds me of the smell of the public library, when as a kid Mom would to pick out our summer reading books. After the difficulty of limiting my selections down to five or six, then I could spend the entire day laying in the grass savoring other people’s [...]

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A Place to Slow Down

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A Slow Down Place Ok, so I’ve started this post about 12 times. There’s an important message here and I’m trying to get my head around it and pinpoint it. I think the message here is that it is necessary, important, and even critical to slow down at some point, for some specified time (which [...]

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Top 10 Benefits of Guided Group Travel

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Are You a Good Candidate for Guided Group Travel?  You Might Surprise Yourself! Is guided group travel for you? Or group travel in general? These days most people spend so much time in the office stressed out, they simply don’t have time, don’t take the time, or don’t want to hassle with planning a dive [...]

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Too Old For an Adventure Job?

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Too Old for an Adventure Job? It never occurred to me until recently to even ask if I was too old for an adventure job. Why? Because I’m not old, at least in MY mind. Old is awfully relative don’t you think? Twenty is old to a ten year old and eighty is old to [...]

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Itchy for Adventure Travel?

I’ve got to ask this question, “Am I alone out here????”  Does anyone else have these damn itchy feet? I don’t mean that I need some Dr. Scholls foot powder, no I mean the inability to stay put, the insatiable need for movement, the constant curiosity for the world.  Do other people wake up and [...]

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Adventure Jobs – Some Questions to Ask Yourself HONESTLY

Adventure Jobs- Some Questions to Ask Yourself HONESTLY We had an overwhelming response to Sharkman’s  blog post Top Reasons Why You Need An Adventure Job.  People are realizing they want and NEED more in their life.  While climbing the corporate ladder and living in cubicle nation is a great lifestyle for some, others are realizing [...]

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The Timing is ALWAYS Right for Lifestyle Design!

The Timing is Right for the Adventure Lifestyle

This last weekend, we were smack in the middle of the adventure lifestyle and an experiment in lifestyle design- camped out in the desert 20 miles north of the Mexican border with a group of bonafide explorers – we were at the Overland Expo.  If you’re not familiar with overlanding, and we weren’t, Overlanding is [...]

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Overland Expo – This was WAY cool!

Where did We Go? Last weekend we attended the Overland Expo in Amado, Arizona.  It’s only the second annual but already is quickly gaining momentum because overlanding enthusiasts are well….enthusiastic about their community, the world, adventure, giving back and hitting the road. But what exactly is overlanding?  To be honest, three weeks ago, I didn’t [...]

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Allergic to Travel?

Got allergies? Don’t let them keep you at home – a few simple precautions can make nearly any spot on the globe accessible. Dr. Erik McLaughlin writes the informative Adventure Doc blog.  He says that packing both oral and topical antihistamines (something like Benadryl capsules or cream) makes sense even if you don’t think you [...]

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