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.

Kip Madden's Stories

La Paz, Bolivia: At the Top of the World

In the fast-moving modern times of the travel business, how does one decide between, say, the Bahamas or Singapore? One brochure boasts luxury in Honolulu and another calls you to Paris. One hotel has a ...

Bush International Airport, Houston, Texas

A United States customs worker in the Bush Houston International Airport points to a white-countered window where a middle-aged woman, appearing to be of Asian descent, sits patiently behind a counter. One of the uniformed ...

Cartagena: The Most Interesting Man in the World

And there he was. The most interesting man in the world. Better yet, he was the encapsulation of the advertised Dos Equis man: someone who bathed with piranhas, dodged bullets, drank gasoline, and combed his ...

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