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How 'digital nomads' took over Tulum's tropical paradise.
OK, guys — we’re going to the underworld,” says Gerardo Medina, a swashbuckling guide with a loose ponytail and a silver eyebrow ring. “But first we have to make our way through
Fantasy and murder at the world's biggest Renaissance festival.
Brandon Wayne Smith came to the Texas Renaissance Festival on October 16, 2004 for the same reason as anyone: to party like it was 1599. A clean-cut 23-year-old Second Class Petty Officer
Oregon voters have opened the door to treating mental illness with substances like ketamine and psilocybin. In a peek at the future, our seeker attends a backwoods retreat where patients get help from a powerful combination of drugs and the outdoors.
Natalia Del Campo sees the Blue Pool, shimmering like a winter oasis. It sparkles below a snowy trail and rocky gray cliffs, the iridescent turquoise water rippling under the rushing downpour of
Teenage diver Sebastian Morris and his dad were hunting for treasure in the Gulf of Mexico when they found a below-the-knee prosthetic. How do you lose that in the ocean? Amazingly, they solved the mystery.
On May 4, 2020, with the pandemic turning his life upside down, 13-year-old Sebastian Morris needed a break. Bright and amiable, with long brown hair and wraparound shades, Sebastian lived in Santa
Flying thousands of feet above the ocean, the pilots that serve as America’s first line of defense in the war on drugs use cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned know-how.
?Inside the Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion, a high-tech, flat-gray turboprop used to track drug smugglers, two men eye the radar screens perched just outside the open cabin door. Another grips a joystick
For nearly half a century, legends of a giant cave in the Andes—holding artifacts that could rewrite human history—have beckoned adventurers and tantalized fans of the occult. Now the daughter of a legendary explorer is on a new quest: to tell the story.
The world’s most mysterious cave is difficult to reach. To get to Cueva de los Tayos—Cave of the Oilbirds—drive east out of Ecuador’s capital city of Quito for eight hours along narrow,
The family of the Grateful Dead legend has spent years traveling across the country and sampling countless strains to find a cannabis worthy of Jerry's name. We went along for the ride.
On a crisp February night inside a rambling old house in Oakland, a half dozen Deadheads pass a pipe and ponder the question: If Jerry Garcia were a kind of weed, what
The Yes keyboardist defined Spinal Tap–esque excess, until he staked everything on his eccentric dream of an Arthurian rock opera on ice. Now, the tale of his epic spiral and long, slow comeback can finally be told.
On a cold winter night in 1980, a London bobby was walking his beat in Kensington Gardens when he spotted a man sleeping on a park bench. The bobby recognized him immediately
The Tuareg rocker, Mdou Moctar, was never meant to play guitar. Despite the odds, he managed to make a name for himself, star in an homage to Prince's Purple Rain—and create one of the best rock albums of the year.
In the wee hours of morning one day in September 2013 in Agadez, Niger, an ancient market town in the middle of the Sahara, eight cops stormed a mud-brick home searching for
Maybe not in our hearts, but certainly in our brains. Plus, they can make you love the indoors far too much—which is why there’s now a full-fledged, woodsy rehab center for joystick addicts who need a soothing pathway back to a normal life.
Joining game in progress. You materialize at a sprawling ranch near a snowcapped mountain covered with freshly powdered pines. Three horses graze nearby behind a purplish wooden fence. To open the gate,
