• Outside: Adventure Homes The coolest, and cheapest, places to buy an adventure-ready second home. Spring Break Adventures South African Getaways The Falkland Islands The Top 16 Ski Resorts See all Travel Sudden Impact Laptops and cell phones are merging. Presenting our …full story

• Google Becomes Bike-Friendly
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• Hood to Coast the Movie Brings Epic Adventure to Silver Screen
• Kilted Skiers Set World Record
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• Jamaica: 20% Off All-Inclusive, Oceanfront Negril Boutique Hotel - $440/nt for 2 guests
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• Children's Bay Cay, Bahamas, Caribbean
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• Madness Team Summits Aconcagua!
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• Lars og Meretes nettdagbok/Lars and Merete's Aconcagua online diary
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• REI: Deal of the Week Seven days to save. New deals land every Friday. sorted by: Relevance Brand: A - Z Brand: Z - A Price: Lo - Hi Price: Hi - Lo Newest Customer Rating % Off Bestselling PUMA Complete …full story

• EverestNews: Featured Highlights/News Everest 2010: 0 Summits 0 Death 03/09 Everest 2010: James Wilde 03/09 Millet 03/09 Mountain Hardwear 03/09 Michael O'Donnell nice pictures 03/09 Muztag Ata, China Picture show 03/09 The Sherpas of Everest Series: Tenzing Sherpa (7 time summiter) …full story

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• Adventure Town: Austin - A Local's Guide to SXSW
• First Ski Descent in China's Minya Konka: Against the Clouds
• Bob Ballard Update: The Explorer Gets His Dreamboats
• That Perfect Island: Does It Exist? Here's Where to Look.
• This Weekend: Nevada's Unsung Ice Climbing
• Wild Roads: Ski, Soak, Repeat in Crowd-Free Banff National Park
• Readers' Choice Adventurers of the Year: Marc Hoffmeister, In His Own Words
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• The Quest for the Perfect Alpine Touring Boot, Part I
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• The 2010 Sellaronda Ski Marathon
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• REI: DEAL OF THE DAY Sorry, this deal is done. Visit tomorrow for the next hot deal! More ways to shop. 60% Off Deal of the week Overstocks Under $20 …full story

• ActiveNZ: Learn about blogs, citizen journalism, and social networking Subscribe PoliticalShift Politicians Use Social Media to Bypass the Press Corps by Steven Davy Politicians are figuring out what social media technologies like blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have to offer: direct …full story

• iExplore Argentina Experience (rated 3.63 out of 4) Argentina offers stunning mountain scenery, tropical waterfalls, rambling vineyards, sleepy alpine towns, sensuous ocean-side cities... $300 OFF Book by: 3/31/2010 $2095 $1795 7 days Difficulty: Comfort: Exclusivity: Itinerary: Customizable …full story

• FijiAdventures: Specials PLAY IN PARADISE AND SAVE HUGE DISCOUNT! Save over $400 Per Person! 3 Free nights at the deluxe Warwick Resort. Travel November - March and get an unbelievable savings. A great beach resort on the main island. $505 (6 …full story

• Department of Shameless Flogging
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• Adventure.travel: Featured Adventure Introduction to Mountaineering Taking Your First Steps Toward Stepping Up High While we all love being outdoors, some of us have a little more hunger, a little more drive to seek more of a test, a deeper sense …full story

• ExplorersWeb: explorersweb 3.0 will launch soon - over Contact 4.0 May 7, 2009 (MountEverest.net) Summit news broke early on Everest this season. The first top went to Sherpas working on the route with British David Tait close behind. “I am pleased to say that i summited …full story

• ExplorersWeb: Slam-dunk: Cecilie and Ryan bag polar history (ExplorersWeb.com) Arriving at the Ross Ice Shelf today, January 21, nearly a century after Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, American Ryan Waters, 36, and Norwegian Cecilie Skog, 35, have achieved …full story

• TrekTravel: Trek Travel In the News
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• Peter Verburg blogs about his Giro d'Italia experience
• May, 2009
• Trek Travel is on GlobeLife as Peter Verburg blogs from the streets of this year's Giro d'Italia bike tour.
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• Trek Travel featured in Men's Journal
• May, 2009
• Trek Travel is featured in the May issue of Men's Journal for our Giro d'Italia bike tour.
• Trek Travel featured in New York Times
• April 1, 2009
• Trek Travel was recently featured in a New York Times article entitle "More are spending less, to get a way from it all", by Stefani Jackenthal.
• Trek Travel is "pushing it to the edge" in Celebrated Living!
• Spring 2009
• Trek Travel's Cross Country USA bicycle trip is featured in the Spring 2009 issue of American Airlines Celebrated Living magazine. Ken McAlpine tells us why "those Tour de France lightweights" fall 1,000 miles short of our Cross Country trip of a lifetime.
• Voted the best...
• February 2009
• Trek Travel was voted the best by National Geographic Adventure Magazine with 100% client satisfaction.
• Official Tour Operator for Santos Tour Down Under
• January 2009
• Trek Travel has been named Official Tour Operator of the 2009 & 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
• Trek Travel featured in Bicycling Magazine!
• November 2008
• Trek Travel's Cross Country USA bicycle trip is featured in the December issue of Bicycling Magazine as one of the 15 trips they love! Read "Live the Cross Country Dream".
• Trek Travel featured on ForbesTraveler.com
• April 2008
• Trek Travel has recently been mentioned on ForbesTraveler.com for our Bordeaux Wine Festival vacation.
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• Find your vacation of a lifetime faster! Every bike tour we offer is now never more than 1 click away. Plus, check out our Show Me Similar Trips search on each tour detail page to quickly find the best trip to suit your travel dates, destination, activity level, price range and interests.
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• February 2008
• Nicholas Snider is the winner of our California Wine Country giveaway. He and a guest will enjoy one of the world’s premiere cycling regions, compliments of Trek Travel. California’s Wine Country provides an uncommon blend of panoramic views, flavorful wines, upscale menus, and elegant country living along quiet back roads and twisting byways. Congratulations Nicholas!
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• Riding the Tour de France: Livin’ the Dream
• January 2008
• Citing Trek Travel’s professional guides, logistics expertise, in-depth knowledge of cycling in France, and reputation for creating experiences of a lifetime, the Discovery Channel asked Trek Travel to partner on this exciting project. Shot in high definition, the show chronicles two lucky contest winners as they prepare for and then challenge the toughest mountain stage of the 2007 race.
• To aide in their adventure of a lifetime, the riders are equipped with Trek’s top-of-the-line All New Madone and receive constant logistical and moral support from one of Trek Travel’s elite guides, Doug Kirkby. Be sure to tune in and watch as Doug expertly guides the two contest winners toward achieving their ultimate goal.
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• Trek Travel teams up with Pro Tour Team Astana!
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• Trek Travel will also partner with Astana, offering behind-the-scenes access to the team. —VeloNews
• This exclusive access to the world’s most successful stage racing team continues to set Trek Travel apart in the active travel industry. —Trek Bikes
• Living the Dream: Trek Travel takes in La Grande Boucle
• July 2007
• Check out this video as VeloNews struck up a conversation with a couple of lucky Trek Travel guides and their guest at last years Tour de France.
• California Wine Country Bike Tour Review in NorthShore Magazine
• May 2007
• Ride Ways by Betsy Noxon
• Tucked far away on the West Coast, the wine country spans acres of sacred land. We all know about Sonoma Valley from drinking its full-bodied wine, but what do we really know about this region? In wine country, the Mayacamas and Sonoma Mountains meet lush valleys, grape vineyards thrive, and century-old redwood trees tower overhead. Sonoma County, Calif., is an oasis for vintners who are passionate about transforming and combining ripe grapes into precise blends anyone in the world can enjoy...
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• March 2007
• We are proud to once again receive Outside Magazine’s Trip of the Year Award.
• This year our Cross Country USA Bike Tour was named North American winner.
• This epic, coast-to-coast challenge takes you from Santa Barbara, California, to Charleston, South Carolina—2,949 miles with 167,000 vertical feet of climbing—in 33 grueling days. You'll pedal on two-lane blacktop across the Mojave Desert, over Rocky Mountain passes, and through southern prairies en route to the Atlantic seaboard, staying in roadside hotels along the way. You'll earn a lifetime's worth of bragging rights (you're averaging a century ride per day) and get a two-wheeled take on the classic American landscapes that most travelers experience only as a blur through the car window. Just be sure to remember to dip a toe in both the Pacific and Atlantic or your efforts might be in vain.
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• December 2006
• Jeff from Palo Alto Bicycle is interviewed by Chris Christensen from AmateurTraveler.com on his recent trip to Tuscany, Italy with Trek Travel. This podcast does an excellent job of describing what to expect on a Trek Travel trip as well as provide some insider knowledge of Italy. …full story

• WalkingSoftly: 14-21 $4,275 Japan Heritage October 27 - November 5 $4,895 San Francisco Art Adventure December 3-5 $895 NEWS! The Mountain Hiking Holidays website is now live! Walking Softly's hiking trips are now offered under the "Mountain Hiking Holidays" brand name. You can access information about 26 - November 4 $4,895 San …full story

• AdventureCenter: The Best of Ghana and Mali - zaa Departure: 27 March, 22 May, 19 June 2010 Save 10% Was $1410, Now $1269 plus $520 kitty. 26 days starting in Accra and ending in Accra Travel through some of West Africa's most diverse landscapes on this adventurous trip. From Ghana's Gold …full story

• Adventure Center: 26 days starting in Accra and ending in Accra Travel through some of West Africa's most diverse landscapes on this adventurous trip. From Ghana's Gold Coast and the Ashanti Kingdom we'll travel north, crossing into the seldom-visited country of Burkina …full story

• Best of Adventure 2010: Vote for the Adventurer of the Year!
• The Best of Adventure 2010 Hall of Fame: The Visionary
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• High Performance: Ski Training with Lindsey Vonn
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• Training for Your Climbing Preference
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• Cary NC LifeSuccess Coach Joins Forces with Apex NC Adventure Based Team Building Facilitator to Offer LifeVenture
• LifeVenture Weekend Retreat
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• Learning to Rest: The Climbing Experience Applied to All of Life
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• CruisingWorld: Know Before You Go Fatty's Guide to Chartering Options Editor at large Cap'n Fatty Goodlander explains the three main options for charterers-- bareboat, crewed, and bareboat flotilla. Online supplement to our July 2007 issue New Course Geared for Cruising Couples …full story

• TrekTravel: Trek Travel In the News Peter Verburg blogs about his Giro d'Italia experience May, 2009 Trek Travel is on GlobeLife as Peter Verburg blogs from the streets of this year's Giro d'Italia bike tour . Trek Travel featured in Men's …full story

• ekoVenture: ekoVenture Experiences Spotlight Valley of the Waters: Half-Day NSW Bushwalk Explore the remote wilderness, deep gorges and ancient rainforest of the Blue Mountains, one of Australia’s most spectacular natural landscapes Participants will be accompanied by a fully qualified ecological guide who will teach you about the flora and fauna, geology …full story

• iExplore: Estonia The most scenic of the three Baltic States, Estonia is a nation famed for its enormous forests, beautiful wetlands and remote offshore islands as well as for being one of Europe's most friendly and... Overview Where To Go Travel …full story

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• Another great cycling tour group.. They'll take you on tours around the world.. Lower budget & luxury tours.. Both are supposed to be great. Italy is first on my list, though New Zealand sounds very appealing too.. …full story

• I've heard great things about this group, and of course who could imagine something better than biking around Tuscany, enjoying fine wines and Italian food??.. …full story

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• Alex Filippenko, PhD, professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, is a leading authority on supernovae, black holes, galaxies, and cosmology, and is actively working with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck telescopes. His team’s discovery of “antigravity” was named “Top Science Breakthrough of 1998” …full story

• In recent years, exciting new finds have been made here, including the Hunal Tomb, believed to be the burial place of the founder of the Copán Dynasty, and the Margarita Tomb, thought to hold the remains of his wife, both excavated by our Guest Speaker Robert Sharer. Recent excavations by Guest Speaker Ricardo Agurcia revealed the marvelous Oropendola Temple beneath Structure 16. There has also been important progress in preserving and deciphering Copán’s famous hieroglyphic stairway …full story

• A total solar eclipse is one of nature’s most dramatic phenomena, when the sun, moon, and earth are perfectly aligned and darkness washes over the earth in daylight. We invite you to experience this awesome event aboard the luxurious Paul Gauguin on the turquoise seas of the South Pacific. Our ship gives us the maximum flexibility to maneuver to the ideal viewing position on Eclipse Day and offers every comfort as we journey among Polynesia’s magnificent isles and coral lagoons. Astronomer Alex Filippenko, PhD, one of UC Berkeley’s most popular professors, will accompany us to share his expert knowledge—his 7th eclipse program with us! rnrn …full story

• BackRoads: Backroads has once again been ranked among the top travel operators globally in the prestigious 2007 World's Best Awards. It's our 10th consecutive win??in fact, we've been there every year since the Tour Operators and Safari Outfitters category was first established in 1998. What makes this award especially gratifying is that it's decided not by a handful of judges but by a massive reader's poll. Backroads was evaluated in six key categories??staff and guides, itineraries/destinations, activities, accommodations, meals and overall value??and we're proud to have received our highest total score ever. Making the Top 10 is gratifying and puts us in very distinguished company. At the same time, it simply reaffirms what we've been hearing all along from the most important judges: our own travelers. When Backroads guests tell us we have the best leaders in active/adventure travel, it inspires us to work harder than ever, meeting and exceeding their …full story

• IslandExpeditions: This section of our website is to find out more about special deals on trips, flights and from time to time on paddling and outdoor gear. Also you can sign up for our email newsletters (along the left menu) which will keep you on top of current news about Belize and our trips. Trips on Special $100 off per person on trip departures, starting from November 23rd, 2008 through to Dec. 15th, 2008. email us at info@islandexpeditions.com or call us at 1-800-667-1630 for details Note: Last minute discounts are used to help offset the increased flight costs, associated with last minute departures, as well to help fill trip seats after we have the minimum numbers to run the departure. These special trip fares can not be combined with any other offers, or discounts. Please mention you saw it online, when you contact us. For more information on the cost of …full story

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• Belize, unique and unusual, is an exciting destination for the traveler seeking to experience different cultures and exotic environments. An English-speaking, democratic nation, Belize is blessed with an amazing variety of bio-geographic regions, including the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, hundreds of tiny cayes (as the Belizeans call their islands, pronounced 'keys'), miles of unexplored beaches, and world class diving, snorkeling, and fishing. …full story

• We operate seven different scheduled trips throughout the year. We named all our outdoor adventure trips after our favourite New Zealand trees and birds because we're very enthusiastic about New Zealand's natural history, and sharing that knowledge with you. …full story

• Our 14-day Jaguar adventure tour is our most adventurous trip packed with hiking, biking, backpacking, jungle hikes, a village home stay and plenty of multi-activity options. …full story

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