Whiskey 7 Backroads

The number is round enough that it sticks in your head. Garmin crossed 10,000 SOS incidents in October 2022, and they have been telling the story of the 10,000th one ever since. It is the story of a 33-year-old Pacific Northwest dirt biker named Kyle Mc...

When we started planning the Baja trip with the group, one place that everybody knew they wanted to visit was Aqua Verde. It's one of those places that is off the beaten path. The turnoff sits quietly off Highway 1, and the pavement disappears fast. By the time the Sea of Cortez came back into view, the road had made the point: this is not a place you stumble into by accident...

When Kenyan adventurer Becky Kim finished her 28,254-mile Cape-to-Cape drive outside The Grenadier pub in London on June 12, 2026, she walked 122 days backward through six deserts, two oceans, and every latitude between the southern tip of Africa and the Arctic Circle. Her co-driver and navigator wasBonnie Koko. Her vehicle was a stock INEOS ...

The moment Brent Conklin pulled the Starlink Mini out of its shipping box, he knew something had shifted. Not in a dramatic, clouds-parting way. More like the quiet click of a puzzle piece finding its home after years of forcing the wrong shapes into place. The dish weighed 1.10 kilograms. He could hold it in one hand while pouring coffee with the other. The dimensions read 2...