Words by Kirk Owers
From December to March it barely stops snowing on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. They sweep the airstrip so your plane can land. Mountain roads are banked 15 feet high in pure white. You go to bed, it’s snowing. You wake up, it’s snowing. Ski the same run twice and fresh powder has [...]

There comes a point in the summer where my friends and I get really excited for Siren Music Festival put together by one of my favorite reads The Village Voice. It’s held annually at Coney Island and this year it was extra special because supposedly they are tearing down the infamous historic New York [...]

Words by Kirk Owers
Tahiti’s verdant natural beauty has inspired many things: mutiny on the bounty, Gauguin’s best paintings and Marlon Brando’s mid-life wig out. While the South Pacific is sprinkled with literally thousands of beautiful islands, Tahiti stands alone. And it stands tall. The dramatic volcanic island spears out of the Pacific like a geographic [...]

Following on in the ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ theme, and introducing the ‘worst luck in air travel for a small domestic holiday’ category I am pleased to recount a visit I made to Barcelona Restaurant in Christchurch.
My lack of planning and wonderful ability to mis-read the fine-print meant that I booked a return [...]

Words by Kirk Owers
Gun your chariot past Wollongong and you’ll have two of Australia’s biggest cities in your rear view mirror. Don’t it feel good. Vistas become greener and roads quieter the further south you roll. There’s touristy stuff on offer but it doesn’t jump out and wack you over the head like the brash [...]

It’s easy to forget that there was ever a tsunami on Phi Phi Island. Were it not for the hundreds of tsunami warning signs and hotels sold as being made of tsunami durable materials, you could believe that it was just another holiday place for travelers coveting some serious fun in the sun. I sunned [...]

Words Joel Patterson
Photos Dustin Humphrey
As Fidel Castro turns 80, amid increasing speculation over his ailing health, the race is on to see the real Havana before it disappears forever.
With the Americanization of Costa Rica nearly complete, and the steadily rising tide of Western tourism flooding into former civil-war-ravaged no-travel zones like Nicaragua, Honduras, and El [...]

It’s funny how every cloud has a silver lining. I suppose not all people would see an involuntary 3hr bus ride as a silver lining, but I guess it’s all how you look at it.
As Qantas are normally cheaper than Air NZ with domestic travel in New Zealand I booked ahead and expected to [...]

Words Adam Blakey
Photo Winona Ruth
There are three islands that make up the five boroughs of New York, and countless bridges connecting them. Some, like The Brooklyn Bridge, are as well-know as the Statue of Liberty, while others most native New Yorkers can’t even name. For most young people who move to New York to immerse [...]