Pilgrimage means finding a place with a good story and moving your ass towards it.
We've introduced the concept of a GAP Month as a reliable framework for transformational travel. In short, it's a month of goal-directed...
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Tim Mathis
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84 of the world’s best long distance pilgrimage and adventure routes.
File under: GAP Month inspiration. We’re serving 1997 Angelfire realness around here, so I made this unwieldy in-no-particular-order...
Tim Mathis
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The GAP Month: How do you make travel life-changing?
The GAP Month: How to design your own transformative travel experience, based on centuries of pilgrimage wisdom.
Tim Mathis
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Taiwan Cycle Route 1: What English-speakers need to know to bike around Taiwan.
11 things you need to know to have a great time on Taiwan Cycle Route 1. This article is a “Part 2” of a series on Taiwan Cycle Route 1....
Tim Mathis
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Why biking Taiwan Cycle Route 1 was the virtually perfect trip.
If you’re going to devote time and money to a trip, you want it to be good. Life-changing if possible. A lot of places in the world have...
Tim Mathis
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12 Books that Define Dirtbag Culture (and a few more that should)
Books that have shaped outdoor and travel culture into what it is today.
Tim Mathis
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Ghost sighting: Crybaby Bridge, West Alexandria, Ohio. June 22, 2022.
It seems like there’s a Crybaby Bridge in every small town in the Midwestern United States. I don’t normally go for that stuff, but I...
Tim Mathis
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Kurangaituku: The case to make a surreal Maori myth the next book you read.
Kuragnaituku is the best book you almost definitely haven't heard of (yet).
Tim Mathis
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Seattle music history, by way of artists that I've behaved strangely around.
It would be hard to argue that it keeps up with the London’s and the New York’s of the world, but considered purely in terms of per...
Tim Mathis
- 14 min
The Old Dogs of Olympus
The gods may be long gone, but there's still magic on the climb to Mt Olympus
Tim Mathis
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Everything I need to know about New Zealand’s pandemic response I learned in a bar in 2018
A story about the social fabric that made New Zealand strong enough to beat Covid.
Tim Mathis
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New Zealand Is a Force That Makes Us Dirtbags
Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.
Tim Mathis
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Stating your intentions is the first step: Birthing Travel, the PCT, and the dream life
The first step on the Pacific Crest Trail, for me, happened on the internet. Big life decisions are like that.
Tim Mathis
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The Lower Hudson: A paddling gem hidden in plain sight
The Lower Hudson, Between Albany and NYC, is a criminally under-appreciated and accessible multi-day paddle.
Tim Mathis
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How to discover island paradise on the cheap in New Caledonia.
New Caledonia. Never heard of it? Here's why you shouldn't overlook this Melanesian dot on the map in the middle of the Pacific.
Tim Mathis
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The Camino de Finisterre in a day: An ultra running love story.
Running the Camino de Finisterre was both pure suffering and real pilgrimage.
Tim Mathis
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El Camino de Santiago with just the clothes on your back.
A Camino de Santiago packing list as an illustration of why it's such an amazing adventure.
Tim Mathis
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The Veracruz travel guide the internet needs, but was afraid to ask for.
On my first visit, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to fall in love with Veracruz, and I did. After falling in love, I learned that the...
Tim Mathis
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7 Reasons to Love Mexico (and Not Fear it)
Someone else can teach you to travel safely in Mexico. I want to teach you to travel fearlessly.
Tim Mathis
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How do you pay for travel and adventure? A dirtbag's 3 financial fundamentals
After years in the game, these are three non-negotiable principles that I've come to see as essential to building a creative life where you'
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