View over El Hornillo

The Therapeutic Effect of Trail Running

Within the animal world, humans are physically remarkable primarily for one thing: our ability to run, persistently, over extraordinary distances…

View over the Teide

The Mental Benefits of Deep Breathing

A great majority of people will say that life is accelerating the older they get, that the years seem to…

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What Love Requires

I’ve never seen a perfect life. All I see are travelers, students of being, who fill the world with their existence…

Painting by Per (Pelle) Adolf Swedlund [1865-1947]

The People who Teach Us

As we move through life, we may encounter people in unexpected ways, forming bonds we never anticipated. Sometimes these connections…

Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842), Landscape with a Wanderer

Packing light

Packing only the necessary is a skill, one which comes with experience strengthened with the number of travels undertaken. Carrying…

Marcel-Béronneau (1869 - 1937), View over Ajaccio

Preface - Travel to l'île de beauté

These first words are written down at the Sulztaler Alm, situated at an altitude of 1,890 m, one day before the…

Leaving Conca behind, view in southeast direction.

Arrival - Travel to l'île de beauté

Flying will forever fill me with a sense of wonder - a kind of magic woven into the fabric of science…

Bergerie de Basseta

Day two - Travel to l'île de beauté

I was awakened by the footsteps of the first hikers passing the workshop early in the morning, shortly…

The refuge of Patri

Day three - Travel to l'île de beauté

I woke up at dawn, my mind still weary and my lungs taking deep sips of the crisp morning air. After…