Every Major Paris Museum, Ranked From Skip It to Worth the Line
You have three days in Paris and about a dozen world famous museums pulling at you. Most of them are not worth the hours you will spend getting in line, walking through, and getting back out. A few of them are worth rearranging your whole day around. Here is how I would actually rank them […]
Power Banks in Checked Luggage? 2026 Airline Battery Rules
Most travellers now fly with several battery-powered items: a phone, laptop, tablet, camera, headphones, smartwatch, portable charger or vape. But packing one of them in the wrong bag can cause real problems at the airport. In 2026, aviation safety authorities are warning travellers to pay closer attention to lithium batteries after reports that millions of […]
A Trail Through Time — Adventure Journal
Sam and Isaac stride a wide beach near the northern end of the trail, where the Pacific opens up after miles of forest. Eight days on Vancouver Island’s West Coast Trail. Three brothers—and everything that comes with that. Morning fog hangs over the Gordon River, occasionally shifting to reveal the distant peaks up valley as […]
5 Reasons You’ll Hate Paris (& How Not To)
#4 You Hate the Food This one might sound almost illegal to say, but yes: you can come to Paris and be disappointed by the food. French food has such an incredible reputation that if you’re even slightly interested in food, you probably arrive expecting marvelous things. Finally, you’re going to eat real escargots, confit […]
Hiking Albania, Kosovo & Montenegro: A Three-Country Adventure
I’m not particularly good at relaxing in the traditional sense. Give me a week beside a swimming pool and, lovely as it sounds, it probably won’t be long before I’m wondering which hill to climb instead. If these sound like your symptoms too, you might be an active relaxer – someone who switches off by […]
Best Vacations With Grandparents: Travel Destinations & Tips
Family vacations with your kids are a great way to make treasured memories. Bringing grandparents along for these trips can make them even more memorable. Since some seniors might not get out much on their own, these vacations give them good ways to travel and spend time with loved ones. Where are the best places […]
Why Gen Z is going ALL IN on travel
Fresh back from an Intrepid trip to Sri Lanka, a group of young adventurers explains why it’s all about the experience when it comes to travel. If you ask the next generation of adventurers how we should all be travelling today, it’s not about scratching the surface. It’s about going deeper. No waiting around in […]
AK Monthly Recap: July 2026
July was a VERY busy month. This month I ricocheted from the city of Prague to the lavender fields of Provence to the green cliffs of Ireland to a concert swelling with thousands of people in bald caps to my favorite island in Italy. Yes. It was such a big month, it was TOO MUCH […]
QR Code Travel Scam Warning: What You Need to Know
QR codes are everywhere when we travel now, on restaurant tables, parking meters, hotel signs, airports, train stations, and transit machines. This travel scam known as Quishing or QR code phishing is becoming the fastest growing travel scam warning out there. Most QR codes are legitimate, but scammers are using fake QR code stickers and […]
Following Georgie — Adventure Journal
White’s rig, rigged, circa 1967. Photo by Peggy Schmidt Into the Grand Canyon on the trail of the first female river guide. I am rowing in the flat water west of Diamond Creek when an eddy sucks the raft into the upriver current. In a half second, the river wrenches the oar out of my […]