Living or traveling in a van has exploded across Instagram. #vanlife is rolling up to a million posts, and the popular Instagram account, @vanlifediaries, has m...
Everyone seems to be saving the world. Meanwhile, here I am, a social worker in a mountain town, living paycheck-to-paycheck, wandering through the desert on a Saturday morning and worried about the gas money that it’s going to take to get me back home.
From the sun-drenched valleys of Southern California to the rain-drenched inlets of Puget Sound this new race of children . . . [has] one big thing in common. It is a lust for the outdoors, and the richly scenic coast offers kids a maximum of temptation and a minimum of inconvenience in fulfilling it. . . .
Jillian Mann and Kyla Trethewey stopped daydreaming and did it. They dropped everything, bought an old RV off of Craigslist, and headed off on a road trip across the U.S.. Check out their story here, then zoom over to their inspiring website, Our Wild Abandon.
OutdoorFest’s first-ever annual festival, which provided ten days of free outdoor activities to New Yorkers across every borough, was an enormous success, and had just wrapped up a few days before we spoke.
At 92, Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest National Park Ranger serving today, as an interpretive ranger leading tours at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California.
Pack Burro Racing is the only sport that is indigenous to Colorado. What started as a tribute to the state's mining history has become an annual spectacle in which, every summer, super fit athletes and their hopefully well-trained and willing equine counterparts run long distances over Rocky Mountain passes. It’s as crazy as it sounds.
One of my cats, the fluffy black one, is snoozing on a large pile of recently unpacked clothes over another pile of sheets and pillows on my unmade bed. The win...
While we waited on the striped couch in the reception room of Carol Quillen’s office, suddenly feeling like three kids sent to the principal, people kept poki...
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Folks in Savannah, Georgia take their St. Patrick's Day celebrations very seriously -- and they have been for over 200 years now, with an annual St. ...
I couldn't really find anything out about these photos from, I think, around the 1950s, other than they were shot for Life by N.R. Farbman. And I don't think t...
