by Allie Comeau on August 6, 2008 
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Join The Blogging Post as we head around-the-world with our friends Drew & Erin. They’ll be sending us regular dispatches and updates from around, across, and all over the globe. This is their second post from Bolivia…
Bumpy Bolivia
When Erin and I boarded the overnight, eighteen-hour bus ride from Tarija to La Paz, we were not sure what to expect. Our day of arrival into Bolivia had been a rough one with a long half-day at the hot, dusty border outpost of Bermejo, waiting several hours for a visa at the immigration office and several hours more for a windy bus ride north to Tarija. But once in Tarija, we had a very comfortable and relaxing week-long stay in the home of Perales family. We were not sure what to expect next – tough or easy. It turned out to be a bit of both.
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by Allie Comeau on August 5, 2008 1 comment
Welcome to the third edition of Adventure Edge Radio with Jimmy Buff.
We’ve got a lot to talk about this week. We’re taking a look at Sir Richard Branson’s plan to fly people into space, the Tour de France, and we’re also going to find out what’s up with Lance Armstrong. Plus, Jimmy interviews Beijing-bound Olympic mountain biker Todd Wells. Toward the end of the program, we’ll talk a bit about wetsuits and give you a Last Word.
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by Allie Comeau on August 4, 2008 14 comments
A hiker was accidentally shot and killed by a bear hunter on Sauk Mountain in Washington State over the weekend. The hunter, who apparently mistook hiker Pamela Almli (not pictured) for a bear, is only 14 years old.
Being an avid hiker myself, this story particularly saddens (and scares) me. According to this article, Almli was stopped on the trail, putting something into her backpack, when the fatal round was fired.
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by Allie Comeau on August 3, 2008 1 comment
If you haven’t seen this video on YouTube about the “hugging lion”, be sure to watch it below. It’s the story of Christian - a lion cub who was adopted at Harrod’s department store in London in the 1970’s (yes, they used to sell wild animals there), raised by two men, and released into the wild when he got too big for their apartment. I’ve seen this clip before, but it wasn’t until the Today Show featured it this week that I saw it again.
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by Allie Comeau on August 2, 2008 Leave the first comment
It’s been almost a year since legendary adventurer Steve Fossett went missing while flying over of a remote area of Nevada desert. He was never found and reports are now surfacing that the whole thing may have been an elaborate sham. Steve Fossett may have faked his own death.
Could he have? Certainly. He was an extraordinary adventurer, explorer, and survivalist. The plane he was flying, according to sources, could have been easily dismantled and hidden. He was also worth billions of dollars - surely enough to expedite his escape from the country and set him up nicely somewhere off the radar. But did he actually fake his own death? No one knows for sure, but some people think it’s possible - probable even. His plane hasn’t been found, his body hasn’t been found… nothing has been found.
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