By the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, the Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge (1101 Ring Rock Road, Ely; 877-753-3386; www.dogsledding.com) offers a range of packages from day trips to multiday camping and lodge-to-lodge adventures.
The Turkey trip was part of the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Journeys travel program, unique vacation opportunities that included a lodge-based adventure in Alaska, a dude ranch experience in Wyoming, a cruise to Antarctica, a hike up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, a family safari in Tanzania and nearly 20 other experiences.
For the more active moments around the lodge, snow machine adventures, cross-country skiing, dog mushing, sledding and snowshoe baseball fill our short but intense days.
Explora (explora.com), the Chile-based luxury adventure lodge group is opening a hacienda on an ancient corn plantation in the Sacred Valley in the second half of 2016.
There's her plan to get her book published, her hopes of working in injury rehabilitation, and she and Matt, who married in 2009, have thought about opening an adventure lodge in the countryside.
WE land in Belize City on a hot morning, climb into a rental car — a battered black 2003 Mitsubishi Outlander — and head west toward our first destination, an eco and adventure lodge called Ian Anderson's Caves Branch.
In the charming oasis town of San Pedro, you'll find the five-star adventure lodge Explora en Atacama, an ideal base for both exploring the desert and gazing skywards.
Now they run all-inclusive party weekends in fancy houses around the world: next up are a New Year's break in an Icelandic lodge and an Easter adventure in a Moroccan villa.
Many use cash saved on lodging to splurge on adventures.
Explora is best known for its high-luxury adventure lodges in Chile and Peru, but for those who really want to get remote, the company offers several travesías, or journeys, that are done largely by foot.
But one of the real reasons I love coming back is that this is one of the few lodges that offers adventure with purpose.
