Travel Articles: Traveler Stories

Honeymoon trip to Peru.

We celebrated our 25th anniversary and Machu Picchu's 100th anniversary!

During the summer of 2011, we began planning for our trip to Peru. The Adventure Life travel agency of Missoula, Montana, specializing in Central and South American travels, was selected as we endorsed their philosophy of utilizing local lodging, transportation and guides, maintaining small groups, and being ecologically responsible. Our tour …

With Kassandra’s knowledge of the area and our requirements and dates, We felt like our Peru trip was tailored to our exact liking and it made for a fantastic, fabulous, wonderful, exciting and culturally and educationally informative vacation . No other travel company comes close to the private, tailored trip like we experienced. With …

Machu Picchu Pilgrimage - It was absolutely the most magnificent time we’ve ever had. We’ll re-live it over and over again. It couldn’t have been any better if we would have written a script. Our trip would not have been as awesome without the vast knowledge, patients and easy-going personality of Ayul Acuna Cardenas our tour guide and the …

A fabulous and educational trip to the Galapagos Islands and Peru with our daughters. Definitely a trip of a lifetime for our family.

A fun-filled historical cruise that took my sister and I through Southeast Alaska from Juneau down to Seattle in August. We saw living history with our crew from the Gold Rush era. There was not a dull moment with wildlife and culture abounding, especially the whales!

Who knew that trekking the Inca Trail alone with only a guide, and an entourage of 4 porters and 1 cook could be so fabulous?

Adventures in Peru -- birthday cake on our Inca Trail trek, visiting children at the Mantay Shelter, celebrations in the Cusco plaza, and making Dead Woman's Pass at 3 month's pregnant. I don't think we'll ever be able to top this Peru trip.

My husband, Toby, and I had a wonderful adventure to the End of the World. I've written details about the random weather, the fauna of wildlife including penguins, specific tours like hiking and camping and what to expect when traveling to Patagonia (Hint: expect NOTHING!).

Adventure Life provided a grant for $2000 to Mantay shelter for cleaning and hygiene products. The funds allowed the facility to maintain sanitation conditions, as well as carry out personal hygiene workshops where mothers and children could learn hygiene habits.
We are very grateful for all the help of Adventure Life!

My seven year old loves camping so where better for a mom and son adventure than camping in Baja? We stayed at a lovely turtle conservation camp where we assisted with local turtle monitoring projects and went whale watching daily in search of gray whales in Magdalena Bay.

For 16 days I crisscrossed Costa Rica visiting as much as humanly possible. It was a whirlwind tour, showing me the best that Costa Rica has to offer.

My first trip with Adventure Life took me to the Bella Vista Cloud Forest and the Galapagos Islands, two completely different destinations that allowed me to get up-close and personal with the wildlife. I spent my day in Bella Vista hiking through the lush forest, and spent my days aboard the Galapagos Petrel swimming next to sea lions and …

We discovered the great rich variety Chile has to offer from end to end. We began in the Fjords of Patagonia and cruised along from glacier to glacier. We disembarked in Puerto Natales and relaxed at Remota Lodge for a few days. Our private fly-fishing excursion was the highlight of our stay. We did a whirlwind tour through Torres del Paine …

Three generations with ages from 10 to 69 exploring Peru together. It was an awesome experience starting in Cusco then off to the Inca Trail all the way to Machu Picchu and finally Lake Titicaca. This was a trip-of-a-lifetime and it was challenging to fit so much into such a short amount of time. By the end of the tour we were enlightened and …

Haley and I had the opportunity to travel to the magical land of Svalbard, with a quick stop-over in Norway's lovely capital of Oslo. Svalbard is a place of mystery that draws people in with the lure of Polar Bears, and then blows them away with dramatic and sublime landscapes. We were spoiled-rotten on an 11-day cruise aboard the Sea Spirit. We …

During a week long stay in the jungle at Pook's Hill Lodge we explored caves and ruins, swam in waterfalls, ziplined above the canopy, and ate some amazing food. It was a dream come true to be able to take my partner, Luke, on his first international trip to such a beautiful place!

After getting married in Montana in the summer, we treated ourselves to a honeymoon in January. We spent a week sailing on the Liberty Clipper around North Eleuthera and a few extra days relaxing on Governor's Harbour's pink sand beaches. It was the perfect getaway in the middle of Montana's winter.

Adventure Life provided a grant Long Way Home for completion of the first four primary school bathrooms. These bathrooms will use an “outlaw” septic system (similar to that used by Earthship Biotecture) that processes solid waste and black water through a filtration system and into black water cell sewn with cleansing plants. These four …

Buddhist temples. Burmese historical landmarks. Elephant sanctuaries. Markets. Thai Food. Thai People. Endless islands. Turquoise water. Just a few of the gems of Thailand.

Sawadee ka! Join me as I travel north to Chiang Mai where I visit an elephant sanctuary and some of the oldest temples in all of Thailand. The journey continues to Southern …

Two weeks covering a lot of ground from the historical dry zone of Ayutthaya, to the Northern hill country of Chiang Mai, and south to the beaches of Phuket and Phang Nga Bay. An amazing whirlwind tour leaving this traveler wanting more spicy foods!

The Skinner family traveled to Thailand in March of 2016. This trip was a true whirlwind of color, people, and culture. The best part was actually watching our boys immerse themselves in the culture, taste (and even cook) new foods, chat with new people, and truly embrace the whole travel experience.

Each country is Africa is so different and I was lucky enough to experience both South Africa and Tanzania on my trip to the continent. Traveling from North America to Southern Africa is worth every second you have to spend in airports and on long plane rides. A place unlike any other, I hope my blog about the culture and wildlife I encountered …