"exploration trip" is a perfectly valid and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "We're going on an exploration trip to South America next summer to see new cultures, explore the wilderness, and try out new cuisine."
It all started on my first exploration trip to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
Federer apparently went along with Ponce de Leon on the apocryphal exploration trip to Florida in the early 1500s to find the Fountain of Youth.
Constance Robinson, this year's expedition team leader and a 2011 Woodlawn Secondary School graduate, wrote a blog about what her second Project Exploration trip to Yellowstone means to her -- before she heads to Penn State this fall.
Its exploration trips have introduced 130 plants to the United States market, and it has an educational wing, with internships, professional training, and a horticulture Ph.D. program run in conjunction with the University of Delaware at Wilmington.
The sub will now be put to use for undisclosed research and exploration trips in the next 3 to 5 years.
During the mating season, searching for mates could trigger exploration trips.
Female 'Non-Rescue' mice displayed a 51.3 ± 4.6% decrease in total activity, a 50.6 ± 5.2% decrease in total mobility, a 43.7 ± 5.9% decrease in total rearing, a 76.8 ± 5.8% decrease in center rearing, a 19.3 ± 3.1% decrease in ambulation rate and a 37.1 ± 6.7% decrease in complete cage exploration trips when compared with age-matched female wild-type mice (Fig. 3A and B).
Interestingly, although the behavioral improvement for male 'Rescue' mice was not complete, their total activity, mobility, ambulation rate and cage exploration trips completed were improved to a level that did not significantly differ from female 'Non-Rescue' mice (P > 0.05, one-way ANOVA; Fig. 3A).
Take your toddler on short, nearby exploration trips.
The New Zealand guide company, XII Mile Delta Canyoning (www.xiimile.co.nz), incorporates multiple water slides into its daylong river-exploration trips.
Supported by NOAA's new Office of ocean Exploration, the trip will include three teams of scientist/explorers hoping to develop a better understanding of America's last great wilderness range, including newly identified deep-sea coral habitats.
