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How to Choose a SCUBA Diving Destination

How to Choose SCUBA Diving Destination There are many things to think about when choosing a SCUBA diving destination. Here we explore the key ones including: Timing Matching location with Experience Time vs. Distance What else Do I Want to Do on My Diving Vacation? Finances TIMING is everything in choosing a diving destination There [...]

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Let’s get REAL on Sustainable Seafood

Let’s get REAL on SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD I am tired of being politically correct and holding my tongue about sustainable seafood.  So today, I unleash it on us Americans.  I speak to Americans because we lead the way and because the world does follow our lead….at least for the moment.  And you might say, “but what [...]

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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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News From Ocean of Hope Foundation

ocean conservation in Fiji

International Ocean Conservation Programs So how does Ocean conservation work overseas??? As we walked in the stifling heat on a narrow dirt path that cut along between the village and ocean, we looked ahead through the brush and palm trees and could see a clearing in the distance. As we got closer, the trail opened [...]

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Duct Tape vs My Video Housing

Some Things I’ve Learned about the Uses of Duct Tape Writing blogs is an education. Why, just today, I learned some interesting and important things about “duck” or “duct” tape. The first and of course most important thing is that the California Energy Commission says, “Duct tape is good for many things, but not for [...]

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Making Travel Easy and Fun….Coming Home

Coming Home from your Vacation We have “officially” finished the 15 or was it 16 part series on Making Travel Easy and Fun and we hope you have found some tidbits to make the nuts and bolts of travel planning…well…..easy and fun. But this series never really ends and I realized that while travel attitude [...]

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Humility in Travel…Just when you think you’re the Expert

The Itinerary Last night I returned home from a five week jaunt through a couple of destinations. It began as a simple 11 day trip to Costa Rica to check out one of the top dive locales in the world, Cocos Island. It turned into a 31 day sprint from Montana to Los Angeles to [...]

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Don’t Wait for Your Dreams

You would think that after 24 years of diving and 7500 dives I would not need courage to jump in the water. Yet February 20th, 2010 was a scary day for me. Was I diving with man eating sharks or in a 10 knot current or to 400 feet? No, I was about to dive [...]

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