Adventure as a Lifestyle
Taylor has been known to tell borderline unreal stories. Her catchphrase is “You’ll never believe it, one time I…” From living in a tent in a rock climbing camp in Turkey for six months to biking the coast of California with surfboards in tow, Taylor always has a story to tell.
Adventure is a lifestyle. Taylor believes one can be in a perpetual state of adventure, adventure zen, if you will. A walk to the grocery store can become an epic depending on your mindset. We’ve traded our childlike wonder for desk jobs, but reality doesn’t have to be boring.
Taylor dubs herself a full-time professional adventurer in the hope that others will take the opportunity to find wonder in the world as she does.
What is a professional adventurer? Well, we’re still figuring that out. It’s a full time job to find delight everywhere, and the stories don’t tell themselves. Taylor conveys her adventures through writing, film and amateur photography.
She has been to fifty countries and filled two passports before turning 25.
Do you want your gear to go on awe-inspiring adventures with Taylor? Send it along! If you believe in the spirit of adventure and exploration for good, you can facilitate an expedition.
Upcoming Adventures
The Mekong: A 700km packraft-enabled adventure down the Mekong River through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam to tell stories about life on the river, how people use freshwater, and the threats to our most endangered resource on the planet. - February 2024
Sea Collective X Project Zero Expedition: Taylor will sail across the Atlantic Ocean with Project Zero, a team sailing from pole to pole with zero emissions to tell the stories of climate change from the perspective of a son inheriting the planet from his father. - March 2024
2023 Adventures
Sailing through Raja Ampat, West Papua, on a research expedition to assess the state of reefs and fish populations in one of the best marine protected areas in the world. Shark and manta diving included, of course.
Rode a 20cc scooter 400km through southern Maharashstra, India, during a self-created mangrove conservation scavenger hunt. The film will be out soon!
Spontaneously climbed Kilimanjaro.
Pitched a small tent in the African Savannah, surrounded by lions, on a pilgrimage to visit the last two northern white rhinos, Fatu and Najin, in an homage to extinction.
Organized a week-long data collection mission on a traditional Kenyan dhow (sailboat) in remote islands near the Somali border to speak with traditional fishermen. The film will be out soon!
Sailed to a secret wave on the California coast and surfed perfect, overhead waves in an empty lineup… aside from the sharks.
Sailed through the Patagonian Fjords for a month cataloguing birds and marine mammals, scaling mossy cliffs, bathing in waterfalls and crying at the beauty of albatrosses.
2022 Adventures
Sailed 1,500 km to the tip of Baja on an all-girls adventure.
Sailed around Mallorca to deepwater solo on a catamaran full of professional climbers and made a 30m high zipline from the top of the cliff to the boat.
Lived in a jungle bungalow on a remote surf island in the Philippines and surfed finless with a sprained ankle.
Created a research experiment to remove 10,000 poisonous starfish from a reef in the Philippines with the help of an army of traditional fishermen.
Sunk a ship in Belize, and then removed unexploded dynamite from a sunken ship in Belize.
Explored a secret cave in the Blue Hole at 40m deep.
Made the Belizean cartel's watch list for uncovering illegal fishing.
Multipitched into the country of San Marino for dinner in a castle.
Saw the source of a river under a dervish temple in Bosnia.
Paddled a surfboard 2 miles in rough seas to dive in the blue grotto in Croatia.
Went on a tuk-tuk surf safari in Sri Lanka.
Saw the sunrise from the top of the tallest building in the world.
Mountain biked to ancient ruins in the Turkish mountains, rode horses above the ocean, surfed storm swell, and skied back to back.
Drove from the Moroccan border to Turkey in less than a week.
