In this interview with writer, professor, community builder, kayaker, and self-professed “post-hippie Deep South anarchist,” John Lane shows Matador writer Julie Schwietert around the textile mill being converted into an environmental studies center, and talks about the relationships between people and place, between traveling and settling, and how to form community. Click on the audio links to hear clips from their walk along Lawson’s Fork Creek, and read on for a conversation about Lane’s book and writing about place.

In this profile of wingsuit flying, Sandra Konta speaks with Birdmen Jari Kuosma, Nick Rugai, and Robert Pecnik. "What is old news to the skydiving community," she writes, "the mainstream public is just beginning to digest: safe human flight is now a reality."

"He doesn’t answer our question right away, sizing us up for a time before asking the receptionist to dig out some maps of the Popo Agie Wilderness. The map he chooses is hand-drawn, carefully creased and slightly yellow with age," writes Tim Patterson in this soulful and sharp-eyed traverse of the Wyoming highcountry.

"A road to me has often meant a promise--of adventure, of something new. More than anything else, I look at roads the way an explorer might, as a means of getting to the unknown, a route toward experience and knowledge," says award-winning author and intrepid traveler Ted Conover in an interview with Matador writer Tim Patterson.

"From Dresden to Sarajevo and from Hiroshima to Hanoi, Kat traveled through bustling cities that had once been devastated by the brutal machinery of modern war," writes Tim Patterson in this in depth interview of Matador traveler Katharine Burgess.

The fast-growing sport of stand up paddling gives people new ways to explore oceans, rivers, and everything in between. And yet, as waterman and stand-up paddling innovator Todd Bradley notes, "Stand-up paddling, it’s a tradition for us. All we’re doing is practicing what our culture has already given us, because it is people we looked up to like Duke Kahanamoku who did that in the past."

From camera selection to shooting on location, this concise guide gets you started working on your first documentary.

From its beginnings in the underground art scene to it's current place as a fixture of Chicago's cultural landscape, the Around the Coyote Festival has evolved into a truly independent creative outlet for emerging artists, writers, and musicians from both the local community and around the world.

"The Lamar valley is one of the wildest areas of the region, home to herds of buffalo, the Druid wolf pack and several grizzly bears, including one notorious silver-tip known as the Tent Smasher," writes Tim Patterson. With his unique style blending lyrical prose and comprehensive practical information, Tim takes us through one of the last truly wild places in the lower 48.

"Absolutely anything is possible. Two massive semi-trucks twisted up in the air as art? Okay. A “Barbie Death Camp” where you can desecrate and bury those little blond bitches? Sure?” Burning Man first-timer, Erin Granat, tells us what she learned at Black Rock City this year.

Tom and Anne Andrus embark on the ultimate family vacation with their four kids, a year-long, six-continent journey of more than 30 countries, which ends not only with a greater appreciation and understanding of different cultures, but of each other.

Outside's Eric Hansen discusses rowing boats in Italy, visiting the Human Pain Research Lab, how to make a living writing good travel stories, and the most beautiful place he's ever been.

"I think by "stylizing" the lighting in my photos, it gives people the opportunity to escape into a world that is enveloped in their own emotional context," says Trey Ratcliff in this profile of his innovative hyper dynamic range photography.

An interview covering b-boy turned artist and entrepreneur, Nopal's Daniel Sanchez.

"A Little Less Conversation," a look at one of America's strangest tourist attractions, is an excerpt from Graham Reid's award-winning travel book Postcards From Elsewhere (Random House).

Marisa Allegra Williams reports from a St. Patrick's Day rally in Oakland for presidential candidate Barack Obama, where she finds "a deluge of support and a wild success, to say the least."

From Wend Magazine's inaugural issue, Melissa Bearns goes riverboarding down the North Santiam at flood stage.

A chapter from Postcards From Elsewhere, Graham Reid's award-winning collection of travel stories (Random House), "Traveling Riverside Blues" takes us through Clarksdale, Mississippi, fabled site of bluesman Robert Johnson's Crossroads.