Solar Powered Circumnavigation

Kati Rutz of transatlantic21 wrote to let us know that plans are indeed in the works for solar circumnavigation.

www.planetsolar.org

ghost towns = adventure

http://www.ghosttownpix.com/

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/

I really enjoy visiting ghost towns. A trip to an abandoned town pretty much ensures that you'll get off the beaten track.

This Fab Trek

A great (ongoing) multi-year travel adventure blog. Staged from a Foley.

Maximog!

A totally maxed out Unimog with kinked-out minimalist trailer and jet-boat, motorcycle, UAV and ROV accessories. It's totally over the top, but perfect for adventure. Unfortunately there is no sign that it has actually been on an adventure yet (aside from being exhibited at MoMA)...have to track it down.

Paddle to the amazon; Paddle to the Arctic

I recently finished reading Paddle to the Acrtic, and re-reading Paddle to the Amazon. These are amazing stories. In 1980 a man and his two sons embark upon a truly bold adventure. The plan: canoe from Winnipeg Manitoba, CANADA, all the way to the mouth of the Amazon River--completely under their own power. It takes them two years, countless encounters with extreme danger, and one son heads home early, but they do it! About a decade later, as if to prove that he is indeed complete and totally (and wonderfully) crazy, that same man, sans sons, attempts to paddle the Northwest Passage (Churchill Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk NT) and though it takes him a few seasons, and a few friends, he ultimately awakens to find that he has pretty much propelled his half-frozen-amputation-requiring-carcass to his destination. Best of all, the book is written in diary format, and partway though he starts recording GPS coordinates with each entry! Reading the book while connected Google Earth makes you feel like you are right there, only warmer.

Mmmmm...infiltration

Abandoned: sites; churches; boats; drains; catacombs(!); hotels; hospitals; utility tunnels; subways!!

http://infiltration.org/transit-subway.html

So bold and yet so dangerous!

Oregon man 'flies' his helium balloon-levitated lawn chair across the state.

Of course it's been done before.

Around the world on a motorcycle on about $10 per day!

"Makiko Sugino from Japan has been traveling solo around the world on her motorcycle continuously for the past five years. She has logged over 250,000 miles; has toured every continent, most countries, and has been hospitilized three times due to accidents, and yet she still keeps going."

Thanks to Swan for posting this encounter with this bold adventurer!

First solar-powered transatlantic crossing

Humans have been crossing the world's oceans in zero-emission vehicles thousands of years, but Sun21 appears to be the first to make a photovoltaic-powered crossing.

Exporing ghost railway bridges--by air!

Here's a neat website by a fellow explorer who is interested in abandoned places. Exploring abandoned places always has the potential for great adventure. Not having access to a plane myself (yet) I'll have to explore these with some other conveyance. The included GPS coordinates will help.

Welcome to The Bold Adventurers Blog.

The plan is simply to post storys/links about adventures that we find interesting and unusual.

Send us storys and images from your adventures, or adventures you have heard about. They don't have to be exotic/expensive, they just have to be cool!