This Top-Rated Adventure Travel Company is Ready to Rock Your World in 2021

If you’ve been sitting on your hands and knees since March, just itching to get out there and explore the great unknown once more: pay attention, because one of the world’s most highly-rated adventure travel companies has a full slate of trips just waiting for your travel-bitten butt to salivate over in the coming year.

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Japan is a Winter Wonderland — Here are 7 Destinations to Prove It

Winter travel isn’t for everyone, but for those who love to go where the snow blows, Japan is one of the ultimate cold-weather destinations. With miles and miles of mountainous terrain and numerous volcanoes, you’re never too far from a ski slope — or a hot spring.

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Ada: Scenes From a Small West Michigan Town in Early November

Many people mourn the end summer — especially those who live in colder parts of the country — but I’ve been convinced for a long time that autumn is the best season of the year, and there’s nothing you could say to me that would make me believe otherwise. Fall means football, the leaves putting on their color-changing parade, and the start of the holiday season.

Unique Gift Ideas for the Outdoor Travel Enthusiast in Your Life

If you’ve got a nature lover in your life, your holiday shopping just got a little easier. There are plenty of functional and thoughtful things to buy for people who love the outdoors. Whether they prefer glamping in comfort or roughing it with little more than a tent, any outdoor enthusiast will appreciate a gift that makes it easier to get outside and connect with nature.

Satisfy Your Wanderlust by Streaming One of These Excellent Travel Shows

Regardless of what you had planned at the beginning of 2020, it’s pretty likely you’ve traveled far less this year than you originally thought you would. Maybe you got a quick trip in way back in January or February, but now it’s been months since you’ve gone anywhere, and you’re about to go completely bonkers if that isn’t soon rectified.

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Kayak Has Mapped Out the Ultimate Spooky U.S. Road Trip

Driver beware, you’re in for a scare… because the folks over at Kayak have put together a truly terrifying cross-country road trip stretching from New England to the West Coast. From haunted inns to creepy cemeteries, and old state hospitals to abandoned amusement parks, the 7,500-mile trip truly checks off every spooky box a Halloween-loving traveler could dream up.

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These 9 National Parks Receive the Fewest Visitors Per Year on Average (2020)

While the big wigs like the Grand Canyon and the Great Smoky Mountains draw in millions of visitors every year, there are some parks out there that are lucky just to bring in a fraction of that. Make no mistake, however: these often overlooked parks are no less spectacular than their more popular counterparts.

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Patagonia's Provocative Political Message ...is Awesome

In a world in which it’s becoming increasingly more difficult not to take a stand on certain issues, some companies have taken it upon themselves to be bolder than others. Nike, with its 2018 ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the face of the NFL’s police brutality protests, comes to mind, as does Gillette, which stuck its neck out for the #MeToo movement in early 2019.

Travel Apps You Should Absolutely, Positively, Without-a-Doubt Have on Your Phone

Whereas some apps are frivolous and just for fun, others are designed to make certain aspects of our lives more efficient. One area that has definitely benefited from the proliferation of these complicated collections of coding is travel. These days, you can easily book an entire trip exclusively using apps. What’s more, they come in super handy when you’re actually on your trip, and in all sorts of situations.

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