[Editor’s note: One night in 2014, while scrolling through Instagram, Ross Borden and I conceived the phrase ‘travelstoke’. It described that feeling of being so immersed in your travels that everything else drops away. Travelstoke is total 100% presence in the moment, the terrain, the culture, the flow, the radically dreamlike quality of life that reveals itself when you’re somewhere unexpected–and often far out of your comfort zone. 
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Photo: Colin Heinrich
15 Ultimate TRAVELSTOKE™ Moments
When you’re exploring the forests of Panama with the local Embera tribe
Image courtesy of Blaze Nowara
When you get to touch a giant
Image courtesy of Stefan Klopp
When you’re dropping into bottomless powder in Sun Valley…
Image courtesy of Cody Doucette
Or finding yourself deep in Yosemite
Image courtesy of Colin Heinrich
Coming out of the shadows and into the sun in British Columbia…
Image courtesy of Carlo Alcos
Or wandering the Sahara, camera in hand
Image courtesy of Kate Siobhan
Greeting the solstice sun with 20,000 hippies at Stonehenge.
Image courtesy of Colin Heinrich
Going to the beach for a barbecue, then ending up swimming with sea turtles
Image courtesy of Doree Simon
Finding the best camp site atop St Mark’s Summit
Image courtesy of Stefan Klopp
Unexpectedly joining a wedding procession in Jodhpur, India
Image courtesy of Mike Dewey
Hiking into Pololu Valley just after sunrise
Image courtesy of Cody Doucette
Making it through the southern Alps of New Zealand
Image courtesy of Colin Heinrich
Your first time trekking through a tropical rainforest
Image courtesy of Carlo Alcos
Paying homage to the Buddha during Yi Peng
Image courtesy of Blaze Nowara
When you find yourself alone at the bottom of the African continent
Image courtesy of Doree Simon