In April of 2006, journalist Karen Catchpole and photographer Eric Mohl left their jobs and apartmen

The world is big. Your adventure wish list should be too. Here are just a few of the more-amazing-than-usual trips that Karen Catchpole and Eric Mohl of the Trans-Americas travel directions Journey are dreaming about right now.
We had the pleasure of snowshoeing with Cathy Shill near Jackson Hole, Wyoming travel directions — her home and the usual focus of trips run by her company, The Hole Hiking Experience . This year Cathy is branching out in a big way with a 14-day journey in Bhutan. The tempting itinerary travel directions includes hiking in the high Himalayas, hot springs, a sacred crane festival and carpets of orchids in a country where happiness is the GDP (US$4,900 double, travel directions including mandatory daily US$240 spend, flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Paro, Bhutan, three-star hotels, transportation, travel directions guides and all meals, November 2-15, 2012).
Want to learn from nature not just about nature? That's the promise of Eco Training's Biomimicry Safari in Kruger travel directions National Park in South Africa. Participants sleep and work in a restricted area of the park, get close to The Big Five (lion, African elephant, travel directions Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros) during safaris, then use their observations of nature to solve modern design problems. For example, Velcro travel directions was inspired by the way burrs attach to fur in nature. That's biomimicry. (US$750 per person, all-inclusive, October 8-12, 2012).
Days are spent riding locally-bred American Quarter Horses past the Salkantay Glacier, through crystal clear rivers, along the Inca Trail, through lost-in-time villages and across green valleys. travel directions Nights are spent in five-star eco-lodges enjoying travel directions gourmet meals. A private guided tour of the pre-Columbian Incan city of Machu Picchu travel directions caps the whole thing off. This seven-day Mountain Lodge Peru trip is the only one of its kind (US$3,690 per person, all-inclusive).
Don't get us wrong. We're still dying to see polar bears in the wild, but we've become fascinated with walruses, too. This six-day walrus-watching excursion travel directions to Foxe Basin in the Arctic Circle with Frontiers North is limited to eight guests and includes home stays with the Inuit people in Igloolik, Nunavut (US$5,999). Bonus: Every once in a while polar bears show up, too.
And then there are the classics on our list like riding the Trans-Siberian Railway, diving in the Galapagos Islands, rafting the Grand Canyon, learning to play polo in Argentina… So many adventures, travel directions so little time!
In April of 2006, journalist travel directions Karen Catchpole and photographer Eric Mohl left their jobs and apartment in New York City and embarked on the Trans-Americas Journey , a 200,000-mile working road trip through all 23 countries in North, Central and South America. After many years on the road they are still nowhere near their goal of Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America where the road literally ends. Until then, their slow and steady travel directions overland exploration of The Americas continues.