Travel Articles: Ziplining

When a student group was notified that their international spring trip was cancelled by school administration for security concerns, they were crushed. With less than a month to find an alternative trip, the group leader decided to contactAdventure Life with hesitant hope. How likely was it to arrange tours, activities, accommodations, and …

"It’s a progressive culture, most of them travel by zipline." - Phil Dunphy, Modern Family

While this might not exactly be true, they do have some amazing ziplining courses! The Arenal Sky Adventures is 7 lines, with thelongest cableis 2493 ft (760 m) and the highest at656 ft. (200 m). The longest cable ride zips through a tunnel …

Adventurous spirits!

I already wrote about our Pacaure River rafting trip in another blog post. However, it was so awesome, that I think it deserves to be mentioned again. You should not go to Costa Rica without taking on the Pacuare...you will NOT regret your decision.

But besides the rafting trip, Jordan and I participated in some other …

I'm not really afraid of heights, but I have a healthy respect for gravity. As a child I loved climbing to the highest possible point in a tree, hugging the trunk and let the wind sway the tree and me. I was always the one on top of the playground, jungle gym, swing set or the one who leaned at little to far over the edge for my mother's …

Travel has become less about the journey and more about the destination. We are all a victim of this paradigm shift! I think "bucket listing" is more and more predominate in our ever expanding and ever accelerating world. Rarely do people bucket list travel routes beyond Route 66 and even that is a disappearing icon in the United States. …