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GLOBALIZE LOVE aviva palmer, Globalize Love, Gregory Flores, New Zealand, The Pope, Truisms

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We are on MSN!!! aviva palmer, Business on Main, cori ready, Shiwani Srivastava, the adventure school, young women entrepreneurs in Seattle

Are you ever curious how this first picture turned into this second picture? Well . . . intrepid reporter Shiwani Srivastava dug deep recently and is sharing her results on MSN’s Business on Main. Please click through for a nice story about two friends with a dream weathering one of the modern world’s most devastating economic downturns. Contact me for any and all long-winded stories about ‘boot-strapping’ it. Oh, and email me about travel tips by car throughout the Western States particularly to the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone or Redwood National Forest OR any other press inquiries: cori at theadventureschool dot com. Or party tips?!!! Talk to you soon. A big Thanks to Ms. Srivastava and everyone on the MSN Business on Main team for taking the time out to learn our story.

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Cougar Peak aviva palmer, cori ready, fire lookout, Ken Swoyer

After our time in Yellowstone we rented a US Forest Service fire lookout tower. It was a super excellent adventure! The Forest Service rents them out all across the west and what a rare opportunity to see the land from the top instead of ground level. I mean, “some” of us were a little bit scared during the 14 mile and many thousands of feet rise to the top. But what we saw when we arrived was worth it. OUR lookout was located in the two million acre Lolo National Forest. The expanse spread before our tower was tremendous. We were able to look upon the placid Thompson River and watch as a single ski boat left a two mile long wake. We saw the forest and the mountains from above and wondered what the bears were doing and wondering how it felt to be the people who walked up the mountain and made the building. We made a delicious smorgasboard of Montana cheeses and read the stories of the cabin logbooks dating back to the mid 1990′s. Our predecessors ranged from honeymooning newlyweds, and grad students to families and wizened old-timers. One had even been to the Cougar Peak Lookout in 1961!

We had a thrilling time and we will be back soon to a fire lookout somewhere! AND on the way back down from the peak were lucky enough to have our dreams come true. We encountered TWO BIGHORN SHEEP on the path! They looked otherworldly and they were mere yards from us. Between memories of their magnificent horns and piercing stares I will dream of encountering them once again.

The Lookout!

the loo and view

the azimuth

learning how to find use the azimuth

Note: The cabin’s foundation was built on slate that the Forest Service brought up to the tower. And so sat 50 years of names carved into the rocks. We left ours too! Now, it will be beat down with the elements for years to come like the stones of all the brothers, lovers and friends who came before us. Some were fancy, some simple, all led us to imagine the journeys of their authors.

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The Adventure School Field Trip! Add new tag, adventure, aviva palmer, cori ready, Joe Overland, Ken Swoyer, Montana, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

We took a field trip with our best friends Ken and Joe out to Yellowstone National Park. We were just there last fall but feel it’s important to take every opportunity to go there because it rules so hard. So, after our intrepid foursome drove several thousand miles hitting up Sun Valley, Idaho on the way, we made it to Big Sky Country and the wonders of Yellowstone intact and ready to camp in the wilderness and hunt bison (with our cameras). We saw elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, a HUGE eagle, enough bison to fill an ocean, foxes, coyote, birds galore, old people and paint pots from another planet. Admiring the foresight of Teddy Roosevelt and the early pioneers of the National Park idea we truly fell in love all over again with this national treasure.

Sun Valley sky

Old Faithful Lodge

hogs and elks at Mammoth Hot Springs

fisheye bison

intrepid adventurer Joe Overland

polaroid bison

elevation 8262

lost on Mars?

our planet?

Welcome to OLD FAITHFUL, LOL.

our neighbors camp

Tower Falls (where we camped)

I LOVE these guys! (buns of steel)

Gardiner

Roosevelt's Arch

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Aviva’s Back From Peru! 2009, adventure, aviva palmer, Machu Picchu, Peru, the adventure school

Here at The Adventure School we consider our entire process as entrepreneurs to be an adventure and each one of our events to be adventures in themselves. But, every once in a while, that old familiar itch to hit the road strikes. And when it does . . . we do! So, a cornerstone of Team Adventure, Aviva Palmer, spent much of the month of April wandering around Peru with two faithful buddies and traveling companions, Rowan and Asa of the fine state of Vermont. They hit up Lima’s wondrous fountain park and fell in love with tasty Peruvian beverages. They made friends, bought finger puppets and generally impressed other tourists with their mad parkour stylings. We will let the wondrous images of Machu Picchu speak for themselves. If you want some sweet tips about Peruvian adventure and how to save your nuevos soles hit her up: aviva@theadventureschool.com.

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hey Spring, WE ARE READY FOR YOU! aviva palmer, bay watch, cori ready, los angeles, morgane le gall, Seattle, spring, the adventure school, venice beach

Are you out there? We would really like it if you could please just let yourself in.

Love,
The Adventure School.

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Working in LA aviva palmer, cori ready, hollywood, josselyn bossenec, los angeles, love, morgane le gall, patrick wright, sunglasses, the adventure school, the standard, venice beach

We heart LA. All photos by the indomitable Patrick Wright .