Kip Madden

Kip Madden is a 25-year-old crazed adventure fanatic born and raised in San Diego California. Combining passions of mountaineering, extreme travel destinations, long distance running, tea consumption, and fanatical spontaneity, he plans on running through the road of life with nothing but pure guts. Campaigning to defend our oceans is on the horizon for Kip. Currently, he is in Ukraine serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer until 2013.

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Olympos, Turkey – working for it

Getting to Olympos, Turkey, our final destination, was turning out to be a real doozy. This sleeping spread-eagle business on the cold green floor of the Kharkiv, Ukraine, airport, catching a 3 a.m. flight with ...

Dniprodzerzhynsk

What happens at the banya, stays at the banya – usually.

I’m playing with my hair out of nervousness. I never do this. Isn’t this the behavior of a preteen boy, mustering up the courage to ask a girl out on his first date? Yet there’s ...

The Magic of Salento

Adventure in Colombian coffee country.

There was more than just a luscious countryside of diversified vegetation and smooth, rolling hills, where a clean river ran steady and uninhibited over gardens of round stones. More than just untouched wax palm trees, ...

Vamos a Las Gaviotas, Baby

Quality surf, cheap lodging, tequila y más.

Here’s what you will do: head south to the land of Baja California, where tumbleweeds run like wild desperados under the tangerine glow of a nuclear sun. Hard work is commended, yet siestas are encouraged. ...

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