Travel Articles: Our Office

A 12 day, 2,000 mile race in a auto rickshaw across India with absolutely no support besides a starting and ending point – why would anyone do this? We did it in order to bring more visibility to the clean water crisis in the world. With the help of partners like Adventure Life, we were able to raise $16,000 for charity: water in essence …

Every year at Adventure Life, we bring out the ugly Christmas sweaters for a friendly competition in the office. There is a lot of creativity from staff that makes this such a fun office tradition! This year, Haley won with an amazing ensemble she put together. Happy Holidays to all!

Betty from our Adventure Life Ecuador office has finally made it to visit us in Montana! We were so excited to host Betty and her family for the past week as they explored the beautiful Northwest including Yellowstone National Park. We celebrated Marcelo's birthday together will all of our staff members and families at Silver Park in Missoula. …

We may be biased, but we truly believe that our guides are the BEST in Peru! Recently, Adventure Life offered some further training that will help them keep this title. Adventure Life covered the expenses for all of our guides to attend the meetings and seminars. It is a priority of our company to invest in our guides' continuous education. …

This last week a few of us from the Adventure Life office in Missoula, MT have the priviledge of volunteering at Project Homeless Connect. This is a one-day, one-stop event aimed at connecting the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless with core services. The services are diverse, with the opportunities ranging from getting a haircut to …

Project Homeless Connect (PHC) is one of my most favorite events in Missoula. It is literally a one stop shop for Missoula’s homeless community to take advantage of more free services than I could even imagine: haricuts, legal services, identification printing, counseling, pet services, clothing donations, foods and snacks, HIV testing, …

Furoshiki is a form of traditional Japanese cloth used to wrap and package things. So what better way to wrap your holiday presents sustainably? As a board member of Missoula's Sustainable Business Council, I jumped at the opportunity to learn this traditional art when they were offering free holiday wrapping around town. After a couple tries, …

At Adventure Life we enjoy any excuse to get up and move around through out the day - healthy bodies = healthy minds!  So whe National Run at Work Day came around, we did just that.  Then to treat ourselves for a job welldone, ice cream on Adventure Life!  We have to offset all the calories we just burned.  The weather held up …

This month at Adventure Life, we've had a special guest visiting our office. Pere Marti came from our Brazilian office to the Montana office to perfect his English skills and impart all of his knowledge to us as well. Included in this was a hands-on tuturial of how to make the perfect Caipirinha. The caipirinha is the national cocktail of …

Adventure Life has graciously given Amani ya Juu (amaniafrica.org) funds to begin renovations on our center in Nairobi, Kenya.

Amani ya Juu means “higher peace” in Swahili. Amani is a fair trade sewing and training program for marginalized women in Africa. Women from many African nations and cultures are learning to work together through …

As a company, our hope is to inspire others to travel. The individuals of our team have experienced the world in unique and personal ways - trekking, camping, kayaking, rafting, biking, and even guiding others across the globe. We have each realized in our own lives how travel educates, humbles, imparts compassion, and enriches life. Travel has …

Volunteering as an English instructor at the University of Montana could not be more rewarding, or comical.

We celebrated our intern, Yibo, on Friday morning with a pancake and waffle breakfast! Yibo has spent the semester as our Chinese Language Business Development Intern helping us with market research and other tasks. He brought a unique perspective on student travel to our team as well. We will miss his presence around the office! Happy travels, …

This April of 2014 begins a new conservationist initiative at the Peruvian Cloud Forest (ACP Bosque Nublado). Thanks to the local association PERU VERDE, Adventure Life and a motivated Mother’s Club of Chontachaca whose combined efforts, hard work and great enthusiasm shall take place in order to set off the improvement of this Community’s …

We like to have fun at our office, so April Fool's Day provided yet another excuse to do just that. Our General Manager, Jonathan, came into the office today only to find a stapler, scissors, and mouse encased in JELLO! (Disclosure: These were broken office supplies...no useful items were sacrificed for the prank.)

Monika, our Marketing …

Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, Irish soda bread, and Irish car bomb cupcakes could only mean one thing. St. Patrick's Day was upon us!

The Adventure Life office loves any reason to celebrate, and our constant festivities prove it. What better way to break up the work day than sharing a meal and having some fun? Everyday I realize how …

Adventure Life, Yacutinga Lodge and Kallpa T.O. (our local Argentina travel partner) have come together to fund and facilitate a series of environmental education workshops for the Guarani Community Kagui Pora from Argentina's Comandante Andresito. The workshops are specifically designed for the children of the Kagui Pora Community. The curriculum …

Adventure Life partnered with our local office to provide sports supplies to the kids at Antonio Jose de Sucre School. Check out some of the photos from the event!

Adventure Lifers got together one evening to try out the newest climbing gym in town. When we're not off on adventures in Antarctica or cruising the Galapagos, we enjoy exploring in our own backyard. Freestone climbing was kind enough to host us for the evening as our friends and families enjoyed stretching our muscles before the long winter …

We invited Carrie from Missoula's own Oula Fitness to teach an Oula class for some of us at Adventure Life! It was a fun class and we can't wait to do it again! If you haven't heard of oula, I'd describe it as a class that merges Zumba and Top 40 or hip hop dance. And it was created in our own backyard here in Missoula, MT. Trip Planner, Mary …

Every Friday afternoon, Adlifers take part in our Barre class offered at the office in our break room. Barre is a combination of Ballet and Pilates and uses eccentric movements to help elongate muscles and transform your body. A fun and exhausting hour spent! And another awesome perk of working at Adventure Life

We've come to expect the rain, hail, sleet and snow during our community's annual Missoula in Motion Commuter Challenge. Bring it on! We'll still demolish you! During the month of May our staff competed with 77 local businesses for the highest percent employee participation commuting sustainably to work. For 2013 they chose to extended the …