Ten Hours In Tokyo: How To Make the Best Out Of Your Layover
The layover can be either the blessing or the scourge of the travel experience. It can be a long wait in a terminal airport seat, or it can be an extraordinary adventure where time forces a brief...
View ArticleLukla: My Journey to the World’s Scariest Airport
Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla, Nepal At the entrance to the Khumbu valley, in the foothills of the Himalayas, lies the town of Lukla. As the trailhead for all treks and expeditions to Mt. Everest and...
View ArticleGo Green and Save Some Green: Three Ways To Be An Earth Friendly Traveler
Train tracks in Cinqueterre, Italy As our world is more threatened by environmental change, we’ve initiated the Green Revolution, finding ways to live our lives in a more Earth friendly manner and...
View ArticleAn Update and the Reveal of My Future Plans
Mike Off the Map has gone quiet. Too quiet – and to my fans I apologize for the long wait in between updates. So what’s been going on? There’s been a long period of activity, projects for other sites,...
View ArticleFrozen Flight: A Helicopter Tour of An Alaskan Glacier
A wide expanse of white surrounded us. Off into the distance we were surrounded by towering peaks, white gully’s, and crevasses so deep that they fade into black. As the helicopter landed, it’s skids...
View ArticleTravel Cheap and Travel Often: The Laws to Traveling On A Whim
I am a constant, ceaseless, and sudden traveller. I like planning trips on a whim, I don’t like to wait too long between ideas and action, and if I see an opportunity i’ll take it at any cost. My...
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