Good Nature Travel Blog

  • News & More

    Explore a National Park This Week — For Free!

    Apr 19, 2011 · Wendy Redal

    It’s National Park Week in the USA. At a moment when the federal budget is as strained as it’s ever been, our parks are nonetheless open free of charge to all comers from April 16-24. It’s a perfect opportunity to discover a new destination or get reacquainted with an old favorite.

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    Adventure: A Sales Opportunity?

    Apr 12, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I’ll admit it: I’m a vampire-story junkie. Ever since I read Anne Rice’s 1976 novel Interview with a Vampire, I’ve been thirsting—shall we say—for more. So, you can see why I was “sucked in” to watching The Vampire Diaries series on TV, ever since it premiered in 2009.

  • Travel Tips

    Adventure Travel Gadgets: What Can You Not Live Without?

    Apr 5, 2011 · Wendy Redal

    What travel accessories are essential when you’re in the back of beyond? Are you in the corps of Kindle-readers and aficionados of portable GPS devices? Or do you prefer your vacations unplugged? How about recharging camera batteries? Join our conversation on what’s useful, what’s superfluous.

  • Travel Tips

    Saving Places Never Seen

    Mar 29, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I still vividly recall the dream, even though I couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old when I had it. I was flying, low—without a plane, mind you—over Alaska. I soared above waving fields of purple flowers and gurgling, ribbon-like, blue rivers.

  • Travel Tales

    The upside (??) of global warming for Arctic explorers

    Mar 24, 2011 · Wendy Redal

    While the consequences of global warming are posing problems for the health and future of the planet’s ecosystems, melting ice has had the effect of opening up new parts of the Arctic for adventure travel, like sea kayaking in Greenland’s remote Kangerdlussuaq fjords.

  • News & More

    The Open End of Adventure

    Mar 15, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, stepped into her twin-engine plane in Miami on June 1, 1937, they were embarking on an adventure of a grand sort. The two hoped to fly around the world, following the Equator.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Bear Power: Up Close & On the Ground | Olaf’s Corner

    Nov 23, 2009 · Olaf Malver

    At Explorer’s Corner, we don’t shy away from getting out there and possibly encountering a bear on the ground while taking proper safety precautions…Some people call it being “one with nature,” but we call it alertness and exhilaration.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Global Warming from the Seat of a Kayak (Dispatch from Greenland) | Olaf’s Corner

    Sep 1, 2009 · Olaf Malver

    Hi adventurers! This Evening I just came off a fantastic sea kayaking trip in Eastern Greenland – and everything just synthesized into a great adventure: Good international group with a common lets-do spirit, lots of adventure, and unexpected wonders – and what can I say – Greenland at its best, with sunny skies, ice…