Offbeat Adventures

The Offbeat Adventures Thread was becoming too large, so here's an index to all of its files. Just click on whichever one you want.

Climbing Mount Fuji, 1959 — My Army Buddies And I Conquer The Volcano

The Little Studebaker That Couldn't — A 1957 Trip To Kyoto Where Everything Went Wrong

How I Got Started In Travel Guides, Part I — A TV Idea Leads To Other Things

How I Got Started In Travel Guides, Part II — A New Idea In Printed Guides

How I Got Started In Travel Guides, Part III — Great Trips/Europe Is Born

It's Off To Portugal And Spain For Great Trips/Europe

Fossicking In Australia's Outback — Hunting For Sapphires And Rubies

East Berlin In 1969 — Visiting The Commie Capital

Visiting Yugoslavia In 1965 — An Unplanned Journey That Changed My Life

Our Own Photo Studio, Part V — Touring The Pacific For Pan Am

Our Own Photo Studio, Part VI — Working For The Railroad

Working For The Airline — Flying High With Air France

Sailing The Greek Islands — A Week On A Small Sailboat

Bicycling In New York — Braving The Traffic And Finding A Speedway

Bicycling in Holland — A 32-mile ride through the countryside.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail. Four 15-year-old kids take off on a Grand Adventure in 1950.

Camping in New York State's Adirondacks. I join the back-to-the-earth movement around 1973.

Rocky Mountain High. A recent 2007 trip to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains.

Innsbruck Mountain Walk. An easy 8-mile hike in the Austrian Alps, taken in 1979 but still valid.

Defiling a Castle in Spain. Under the guise of shooting fashion photos in 1964, we do a bra ad in the Alhambra — then flee the country.

Silent Night and the Salt Mines: A trip to Hallein in Austria explores inside salt mines deep under the mountains, then discovers the origins of a favorite Christmas carol.

Ironbridge Gorge, England. A visit to the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

Photographing Chicago. The Band, not the City. We travel to a remote ranch in the Rockies.

More coming, stay tuned