Solitude, slow travel, and change

Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades

One cyclist rides west, another rides east. They meet on an empty stretch of road in a Kazakh desert.

At 28, I thought my life was pretty settled. Nope.

What happens when SpaceX takes over your sleepy Texas town.

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.

Who gets to decide when a destination is “at capacity”?

The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the deadly realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet.

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

On tourism and authenticity.

The view of a life from cruising altitude.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.

To some, Baltimore Jack’s choice to live off the grid was irresponsible. Others celebrated that he’d managed to break the shackles of convention. We look back on the life of an AT antihero.

Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.

On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.

Every year, members of the Gold Prospectors Association of America pack up their RVs in search of adventure, friendship, and a bucketful of pay dirt.

“I went on a lesbian cruise and it blew up my entire life.”

How a 22-year-old mother became the first woman to drive cross-country.

Legacy, beauty, and danger, 50 years after the river caught fire.

A migrant family takes a Greyhound across America.

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.