Almost a decade ago, I coined a term "adventure roulette." The idea - have fate pick out your next adventure. When I first did it, I literally walked up to the ticket counter at O'Hare and told the frantic gate agent - Tammy to buy me a ticket "wherever." Tammy panicked and sent me to Boston. It turned out to be a super fun trip and & I have been wanting to do it again. Over the years, people have taken on the challenge, riffed on the ...
Impossible Adventures
If you're ready to push your limits and face your fears, read these posts to find out about how you can do just that, cross items off your bucket list and actually do the things you talk about doing.
How To Never Check Another Bag Ever Again
I’ve been traveling for almost 3 years now. To be honest, I'm a bit tired of it (I'm ready to get a base for a bit to grow IMPOSSIBLE), but I have to admit, after traveling so much - I've gotten pretty good at it. Part of it comes down to streamlining the process for myself and having some rules set in place for traveling. Here's a couple of my golden rules for traveling: Pack half the stuff, bring twice the money. Noise-cancelling headphones ...
Lessons Learned Working & Traveling for 1 Year Straight – 7 Continents, 29 Countries, and 200,000+ miles Later
This summer marked a year straight of travel. In the last year - in fact in the last 6 months - I've been on all 7 continents and since I started traveling, I've been to 29+ countries in the past 12-13 months (I'm losing track). I didn't set out to do it, but as it turn out, I accidentally knocked another thing off my impossible list - travel for a year straight. As I've been trying to explain my life to people lately, it looks something like ...
48 Hours In Doha
Today's story doesn't really fit anywhere on the site, but I wanted to share it. Feel free to skip it if you like, but some of the hardest parts of 777 had nothing to do with running. This story is exhibit A. /// “I gotta get out of this place.” I was going on about 36 hours straight of no sleep. My flight. I was already here 12 hours too long. On the way to South Africa from Bali, I routed through Hong Kong to start the journey to Africa. I ...
How To Run Across Liechtenstein
After my last ultra marathon in South Africa, I knew I had to finally come home…eventually. After getting rid of my apartment in San Diego last summer, I’ve been on the road for almost a full 12 months and am ready to be stateside for a few conferences and other events this summer. However, the flight from South Africa to the US is not a short one by any means and doing some 36 hours to get back in one shot isn't that much fun - no matter who you're ...
The Rovaniemi 66km Race
First things first: This race was less of a race than it was an expedition. For starters: The temperature when I finished was -16º and it didn’t get warmer than -8º the entire day. There were entire sections of the race that I hiked knee deep through snow and some where I stepped all the way up to my hip. The aid stations were just a fire and a clipboard to sign in and out of the station. No water. No snacks. No food. Nothing. When I drank ...
Inside The Coolest Camp on The Planet
Over the past couple years, I’ve researched A LOT about Antarctica and about this race - the Ice Marathon 100k. I’ve learned a ton, but I realized I never shared much about the facilities or where the race actually takes place. And I screwed up. Because back in the day, they were basically wooden huts with men hardening up and dealing with it and yelling, “RUB SOME SNOW IN IT” any time they got hurt and fixed “being cold” by becoming numb and ...
Antarctica: A Photo Essay
After 4 days in Antarctica, I'm back. I spent 2 of those days basically running through the night and while it was light 24 hours (so it didn't seem like night), it's weird coming into the main camp tent to change clothes 10 hours in a race and seeing people sit down to eat breakfast when it feels like you've been up for a day. This trip was really special to me - partly because in the back of my mind, I sort of thought I'd never actually make it to ...
My Packing List for Antarctica
I just got back from doing a pre-flight departure meeting last night. Today, I’m flying out to Antarctica. I’m half excited and half terrified. I’m 100% packed and really don’t know what to expect, but according to our packing lists, I’m theoretically prepared (although I'm not sure how prepared you can be until you show up). I travel pretty minimally and pride myself on the fact that I don’t have a bunch of “stuff”, but for something like ...
2,000 Dollars & 48 Hours
How much time would it take for you to drastically change your life? There's usually 2 schools of thought here – little by little or all at once. Both work, but if you're wanting to change a bunch of things at once, I think changing your location is the way to go. Which leads to an interesting thought experiment: How much would that actually cost? How long would that really take? Could you actually do it? Now most people dismiss this out of ...
