- Have Donkey, Will Travel
- Sands of Time
- Cycling the Silk Road
- Road Trip Guide

This issue also features scenes from Algondquin Park, rats, the evolutionary key of the horned dinosaurs, cycling the Silk Road and the fourth annual Road Trip Guide, plus much more.

FEATURES

29_HAVE DONKEY, WILL TRAVEL
Wine? Check. Baguettes? Check. Cheese? Check. There’s a lot to pack when hiking the French Alps. Two prairie dwellers rent a donkey to help carry the load.
STORY + PHOTOGRAPHY: MIRIAM KORNER

36_SANDS OF TIME
Traversing a Jordanian desert Bedouin-style is an adventurous way to learn about Mother Nature and the nature of camels.
STORY: RYAN MURDOCK
PHOTOGRAPHY: JASON GEORGE

50_CYCLING THE SILK ROAD
Inspired by the adventures of Marco Polo, three young Canadians set out on an epic journey through China’s Taklimakan Desert and the Himalayas.
STORY + PHOTOGRAPHY: KATE HARRIS

61_ROAD TRIP GUIDE
In our fourth annual installment, Outpost readers take steering wheel in hand and learn how to take to the highways and byways of three continents in grand style.

IN EVERY ISSUE

7_TRIPPING
Behind the scenes in Algonquin Park.

8_ON THE FRINGE
Oh, rats! Rethinking the rodent that’s saving lives in Africa. A seed bank in Norway will freeze our future in time. Meet the shrimp that bites back.

11_LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Run a mad dash with the Hash House Harriers.

14_GOURMET DU MONDE
Ginger spices things up any way you use it.

16_FIELD NOTES
An Alberta fossil holds the evolutionary key of the horned dinosaurs.

22_HEALTHPOST
How to stay safe on the roads when the roads aren’t safe.

24_MEC’s THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
Tips from and for world trekkers.

22_GOING HARD
Ray Zahab lives life to the limit and inspires others to do the same.

70_OPEN BOX
Editing photos online is fast and free.

72_WORLD WRITES
Summer reads that take you to apartheid South Africa, the Andes and Quetico Provincial Park.

74_BACKPACKERZ BUZZ
News from Hostelling International

82_WRIGHT OF WAY
Learning about life in Laos.