Tips for Leading an Adventurous Life

The truly “extraordinary” airfare deal has become much more elusive in the past couple years – the Airlines are getting smarter, their evil computers track our travel habits and use the data against us, cutting flights, raising prices; It’s done wonders for their bottom line – but it sucks for the budget traveler! Don’t get me wrong, the extraordinary deal is still out there, buried deep in some airline’s database…

First The Adventurists brought you The Mongol Rally, an epic journey traversing a 10,000 mile gauntlet of deserts, mountains and bandits in Central Asia. Next was The Rickshaw Run wherein an international cast of adventure starved lunatics forced three wheeled clown cars across the Indian sub-continent. In their third offering, the good people at The Adventurists set a course for deepest, darkest Africa.

Over the last couple years I’ve spent many late nights trolling for cheap airfares online and through this process have refined my search techniques, making sure that I always get the cheapest airfare available. To get a great fare online you need to keep two things in mind:

The winner of this competition will choose one of five weekend mountaineering trips run by REI Adventures.
1. Mount Washington Winter Climb
2. Sequoia Winter Mountaineering Clinic
3. Yosemite Snowshoe Trip
4. Ice Climbing Basics in New Hampshire
5. White Mountains Hut-to-Hut Snowshoe

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the Bible’s holiest objects, and also one of its most maddening archeological mysteries. Since its mysterious disappearance in 607 B.C speculation as to its whereabouts have been rampant – if it’s ever unearthed it would be the greatest archeological find — well, ever!

Need some suggestions for your Netflix Que? Here’s a list of the best Adventure films ever made.

Sitting somewhere on the Aeronautical food chain between a Hang Glider and a Cessna, the Ultralight Trike is an exciting new class of aircraft which is set to bring the joy of flight to the masses – or at least the ones with $50,000 to spare.

Amphibious vehicles have been around for decades, but they’ve always been sluggish on land, and even less nimble in the water. A truly maneuverable amphibious vehicle has only existed in engineers dreams – until now! The Humdinga amphibious 4×4 is like a real-life, full sized version of a GI Joe Action Vehicle – and it’s coming soon to a dealer near you (hopefully).

This 4×4 van conversion is actually called “Ultimate Adventure Vehicle”. I’ve never seen it in person, but judging by the pictures and specs, it more than lives up to it’s name.

The Odyssey Explorer is a 251-foot state-of-the-art, dynamically positioned ship owned and operated by Odyssey Marine Explorations. Odyssey calls it a “deep ocean archaeological platform” and while the company has done some first rate marine archeology, the real purpose of the Odyssey Explorer is to search for and recover sunken treasure; and so far she’s doing a pretty good job.