This British woman went from being a hitchhiking nomad to fighting on the frontlines in Syria

BY: NADIA ZAIDI  Kimberly Taylor is the first British woman to join the fight against ISIS in Syria. She has joined the Women’s Protection Units, which is the all-female affiliate army of the People’s Protection Units of Kurdistan. She’s one…

A generation of millennials with an unquestionable need to travel

Another day in another airport on another early morning to another home for another adventure. This is our routine and we can’t get enough of it. We are the millennials who feel an unquestionable need to travel, and we want…

The evolution of van-life from the VW Transporter to the electric vans of the future

In the last decade or so, we’ve seen an increase of people turning towards the van-life. Things have shifted and, for millennials especially, the value of experiences has taken precedence over the value of material things. For this reason, many…

This student built a yurt at the base of a mountain to save rent money and live the off-grid dream

BY: ALEX BROWN For $150 a month, recent undergrad Michael Jeffery claims one corner of a horse paddock at the foot of British Columbia’s Mount Paul in Kamloops, rented out by a local farmer for his yurt. As a student of…

How I learned that being a full-time traveller isn’t always freedom and adventure

The moment I realized the dream was getting away from me, I was sitting in a Starbucks in Wrocław, Poland, a city with a name that sounds nothing like what you’d expect: vrat-swaf. We were on a long weekend trip…

Don’t let these five misconceptions about hostels ruin your travel experience

BY: Taylor on A Trip As we all know, finding accommodations when you don’t know anyone in your travel destination can be super expensive. That being said, it continues to blow my mind that so many people believe they can’t travel unless they…

A German photographer cycled 40,000 km to capture portraits of the last African Nomads

BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Mario Gerth Mario Gerth is a documentary photographer whose profession has brought him to over 80 countries in five continents. He has travelled for two years across remote African regions into a world completely different…

This Canadian couple ditched the 9-to-5 world and became permanent (and well-paid) nomads.

By: JACK M. Their story began seven years ago. Dariece Swift and Nick Wharton had just returned from a mid-winter holiday in sunny Mexico to the cold reality of February in the Canadian prairie province of Alberta. From sunshine and…

Giving up everything to travel the world is not glamorous – but it’s worth it

BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Seeing yoga poses performed on Greek beaches, explorers hiking the Norwegian Fjords, and daredevils standing spitting distance from beautiful Swedish waterfalls on your Instagram feed is enough to make any nine-to-fiver green with jealousy. 24 867km //…

This nomad made $1 million by backpacking over 100 countries around the world

BY: ZOE MELNYK Traveling the world isn’t just for youthful wanderlusters searching for a purpose; it’s a lifestyle, and for some, it even provides a source of income. For Johnny Ward, a 31-year-old Northern Ireland native, it only took three years…

5 reasons you should hitchhike across the country and sleep under the stars this summer

BY: ROB HOFFMAN Hitchhiking is a traveller’s heroin. I’ve chased the high since I was 16 from coast to coast in the world’s second largest country on a budget of zero dollars and trail-mix, taken strange drugs with hippy kingpins,…

Man leaves Japan to bike around the world with only $2 and has made it to 37 different countries

BY: ZOE MELNYK After working for his father’s air conditioning company for the majority of his twenties, Keiichi Iwasaki decided to take control of his life before it slip through his fingers completely. In 2001 at the age of 28,…

Meet the man who quit money 15 years ago and hasn’t looked back since

BY: Jack M. Daniel Suelo may be the happiest man on Earth. He was born Daniel Shellabarger 54 years ago and spent much of his life in Arvada, a mid-sized community near Denver, Colorado. Fifteen years ago, in his late…

This start-up allows you to quit your job and become a working nomad

BY: MATTHEW CHIN In a job market with global unemployment feared to increase from the current 201 million unemployed by 11 million by 2019, the opportunity to work while travelling can feel far out of reach. With many workers  feeling like…

This 25-year-old is the youngest person to walk the entire circumference of the planet

BY: ROB HOFFMAN Andrew Siess, a 25 year-old from Minnesota, just became the youngest person in the world to circumnavigate the globe entirely on foot. Born out of a recklessness passion for the road, for Siess, his journey wasn’t about…

Modern nomads formed a tribe to live a traditional Native American lifestyle (Photos)

PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Adrain Chesser Surviving in the harsh terrain of the Pacific Northwest, there is a bold tribe of people who live wild and free, practicing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that ancient Native Americans lived centuries ago. Sleeping outdoors or building…

This former engineer quit his job to travel the world in a van

BY: ZOE MELNYK After years of dreaming about traveling the world, Mike Hudson finally made the decision to quit his job as a systems engineer and begin life on the road in a renovated LDV Convoy. Hudson began implementing his…

This 21-year-old pro baseball player is a millionaire who lives out of a VW camper van

BY: ZOE MELNYK After receiving a $2 million signing bonus with the Toronto Blue Jays, Daniel Norris decided to hit the road with his new dream car—a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van—which incidentally, is also his new dream home. 21-year-old…

This modern nomad has worked everywhere from Manhattan to Madagascar

BY: LAURA ROJAS Marianne Cantwell, as you may know is the liberated world traveler behind Free Range Humans– a project dedicated to helping people escape their unsatisfying careers for a more unshackling lifestyle. The idea of free-ranging is exactly what…