I love inspiring travel videos. More than words, more than photos, I think video inspires us to see the world. I’m always coming across travel videos that inspire me to travel, and this list includes some of my favorites, as well as a few I recently stumbled across. So sit back, relax and spend some time checking these out. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed and you’ll leave inspired to
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Taking a helicopter tour of Maui and Molokai will easily be the one of the main highlights of your trip to Maui. It’s worth splurging on. On a recent trip to Maui, I took my first ever helicopter ride. Although the saying goes, “save the best for last,” I definitely started with the best, first. Hawaii, and more specifically Maui, is perhaps the world’s preeminent destination to tour via helicopter — and
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Located on the Island of Maui, Haleakala National Park is visited by over one million people each year. Although the park is vast (over 33,000 acres) and offers countless opportunities to experience Maui’s wild side, it is best known as one of the world’s best places to watch the sunrise. I recently visited the Haleakala summit and compiled this list of four tips (along with a few other insights) to help you view
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Located amongst the towering French Alps, Chamonix has been one of France’s most popular mountain towns for decades. In fact, Chamonix hosted the first ever Olympic Winter Games in 1924. Chamonix is also home to one of the world’s largest glaciers, the Mer de Glace. Easily accessed by a small train from Chamonix’s city center, the Mer de Glace, or “sea of ice” in English, is an incredible site. I
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When it comes to wine in California, the state’s northern wine regions, home to Napa and Sonoma, often steal the thunder. But California is home to a variety of different wine regions, the least known of which is arguably Malibu. That’s right, Malibu is home to much more than beaches, bikini babes and billionaires. So while visiting Malibu a few weeks ago to do research for another travel video, I swung
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Downtown LA’s Piñata District has surprises at every turn with delicious Salvadorian and Mexican street food, mountains of unusual candy, loud music, and of course, the most creative, original and strange piñatas you can imagine. Los Angeles is known for its food trucks. In fact, you could say the city pioneered the mobile food industry which has since exploded into a national craze filled with gourmet offerings. Now don’t get
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Flying can be difficult. It’s a cold hard fact. The process begins with parking in a lot and boarding an airport shuttle or paying a taxi to drop you off. Once inside, you’re often met with long security lines, crowded terminals and the never ending hunt for an outlet to charge your dying iPhone. Then you board the plane, squeeze into your seat and wait until it’s your turn to take off.
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This past weekend I was in Boulder, Colorado and attended the 2013 Adventure Film Festival. It was an inspiring event filled with outdoor and adventure obsessed attendees and included a line up of incredible, adrenaline pumping and inspiring short films. Below are my favorites from the event in their entirety (with the exception for the first video which is a trailer). So sit back, relax and prepare to be fall
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