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Patricia Garcia-Gomez

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Patricia Garcia-Gomez is a writer and artist working with visual media and sound. She is the editor of Travel by Ageist and a contributor to the Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and The Private Journal (Europe). Her work is also part of the permanent archives of the Tate Modern, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the Buhl Collection, and The Harwood Museum in New Mexico.

Buy This Field Guide Whether Heading Outside or Not

We love this Field Guide series by Laura Silverman and Gilian Rappaport. Volume 1 is Summer, volume 2 is Spring — or, now. In a moment when I appreciate wide open spaces more than ever, these books are focusing my mind on the rewards of going outside. The guides are...

Go for a Hike (and a Forest Cocktail): Hudson and Upper Delaware Valleys, New York

Top 3 nature walks that are easy to get to from New York City About an hour away: Harriman State Park, right off the Palisades Parkway. Try Reeves Brook Loop or the Diamond Mountain Trail. At Ten Mile River, where this tributary joins the Delaware River, in Narrowsburg, NY, there...

Forest Mushroom Hunting

If you follow fellow adventurist Jim Henkens on Instagram you will see glorious shots of things like paella for 200 in France, gnocchi with cacio e pepe and nettles in Seattle, and fireplace cooking with master chef Renee Erickson. Jim's no stranger to the insider food community. For this story,...

Escape to the Outside Institute

Fellow adventurist Laura Chávez Silverman wants to help us connect to the healing and transformative powers of nature. She's also created a modern field guide to reacquaint us with the plants, critters, and curiosities that roam right outside.  Spring is in the air. Trees are good company. We talk to...

Mind. Body. Tummy.

Travel-Tummy Savior There are those whose tummy travels well, and those whose doesn't. Mine is in the category of doesn’t. Especially after an overnight flight. There are many schools of thought on how best to avoid stomach distress while traveling, from not eating anything on the plane (your system can't...

Verdi’s Home: Build a Holiday Around It

AGEIST Hotels You Can Build a Holiday Around: Antica Corte Pallavicina This is our second entry in our series of “hotels you can build a holiday around.” See our first post here.  Our current enchantment: Antica Corte Pallavicina, located in the Italian countryside not so far from Parma. This hotel falls in the...

What to Do in Jeju

What to Do in Jeju Where is Jeju? South Korea. The island lies in the Korea Strait, below the Korean Peninsula, south of the South Jeolla Province.   Why go: Jeju Island is one of the world's New 7 Wonders of Nature, including waterfalls, white sand beaches and a dormant volcano —...

Heroic Divers of Jeju 

Travel Editor Patricia Garcia-Gomez Talks to Fellow Adventurist Alain Schroeder  We don’t know about you, but our grandmothers don’t spend their days in a wetsuit. Nor can they hold their breath underwater for two minutes. We are so inspired by this exquisite body of work by photojournalist Alain Schroeder that...

The Future of Wellness 2020: What Has Gotten Our Attention

Our team attended the Global Wellness Summit’s “The Future of Wellness 2020” in New York this week. And while we are still taking in the immense amount of knowledge shared, we wanted to share a few things that stood out for us. Rebranded Aging is Catching On First, we can’t help...

The Positivity of Salt: A Visit to a Modern Salt Cave

When choosing how to spend one hour in wellness, how do we spend it? We can sweat it out, run it off, ride it through, lift, stretch, swim, be facialed or massaged, sit in ceremony, etc. There are seemingly endless choices. This week we tried something new: salt therapy. Salt...
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