' Where the Spirit of Adventure Never Dies '

In 1999, because of my love for traveling and adventure, this website mainly started out as an adventure travel and recreation resource. As time went on I increased my knowledge of photography, video and web design. So my website, that started as one page, really started to grow and expand. I then realized that this was just the beginning and that I was about to embark on one of my greatest adventures ever, building and maintaining an enormous information and knowledge resource on the internet. As I unknowingly evolved into a Human Search Engine, my adventure, travel, sports and photography website expanded tremendously. I began to find more and more incredible stuff on the internet. Then in 2008, I was also finding a lot of information that was related to education.
So naturally I started to organized everything that I found on education as well as adventure. Then the Epiphany. I realized that almost everything in our lives is in someway connected to education. But not the type of education we experience in our schools, but the type of education that comes from information and knowledge that we acquire from our experiences. With one of those experiences being the Internet. The internet is like the most amazing hiking trail that you ever walked on. But not everyone is on the same internet trail or seeing the same things. So of course I documented my journey. This way people can see what I learned, and at the same time experience a very unique way of surfing the internet. 1,000's hand picked websites, 1,000's of photos, 100's of unique videos, recommended products, as well as travel tips, photography tips, jobs, schools, racing, education and a lot more.
This website has become an incredible resource and a favorite among internet surfers, adventure enthusiasts and information seekers. I just don't travel the world, I also travel the World Wide Web so that visitors will always find something new, informative, extraordinary, interesting, incredible, unexpected, amazing, surprising, bizarre, out of the ordinary, remarkable and phenomenal.
I'm like your best friend who's constantly surfing the Internet to find all the cool stuff and then saving it and organizing it so that it can be easily shared and enjoyed. And now that this website includes Educational Resources means that the possibilities are endless and discovering the true power of the Internet is just the beginning.    Disclaimer & Privacy Notice 

" It's like "The Six Degrees of Adventure" It's just incredibly amazing how many things there are that are in some way
 connected to Adventure. It never ends..."  

Looking for Adventure Song bite from Steppenwolf  or video Steppenwolf - Born to be wild 1969


   
 

Looking for Adventure.com, where Endorphins, Serotonin, Euphoria and Adrenaline are an everyday occurrence.

"Peak Experiences are just the beginning."

"Where Going with the Flow takes on a whole new meaning."

 

 
" I am a Human Search Engine "
An Internet Miner Exploring the World Wide Web
Extracting the best Information and Websites that the Internet and the world has to offer.
An Information Architect Filtering and Organizing the Internet One Website at a time.

A Story about one mans journey through the Internet. What if you shared everything you learned? Did you ever wonder?
Welcome to my Journey in Hyperlink Heaven. Over 12 years of internet searches that are organized, categorized and contextualized. A Researchers Dream.

To put it simply, "I'm Organizing the Internet". Over the last 12 years since 1999 I have been surfing the world wide web. And in that time I have asked the internet well over 50,000 Questions so far. And from those questions I have gathered a lot of Information, Knowledge and Resources. So I then organized this Information, Knowledge and Resources into categories. I then post it on my website so that the Information, Knowledge and Resources can be shared and used for educational purposes. I also share what I have personally learned from this incredible endless journey that I have taken through the internet. The internet is like the universe, I'm not over whelmed by the Size of the Internet, I'm just amazed from all the things that I have learned and wondering just how much more will I be able to understand. Does knowledge and information have a limit? Well lets find out. Adventure for me has always been about discovering limits, this is just another adventure.

What is a Human Search Engine? Person or persons searching multiple search engines, using multiple keywords and phrases, searching multiple websites for links & information, as well as using other media such as TV, Movies, Documentaries, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, Advertisers and recommendations from other people. Doing all this to find relevant information and websites pertaining to that particular subject that you're interested in or studying. This is what I have done for 'Adventure' and recently 'Education'. This technique is also sometimes called Social Searching or Human Power. Integrating the Internet one website at a time.

So how does one person create databases this large in such a short time? The techniques and methods are quite simple.
First: When doing internet searches, for what ever reason, you are bound to come across a website or keyword phrase that relates to your subject matter. Then you do more searches using those keywords and then save those keywords and websites to your database. This is very important because most likely you will never come across the same info related to those particular search parameters, so saving and documenting your findings is very important. Second: When reading, watching TV, watching a movie or even talking with someone, you are bound to come across ideas and keywords to use when searching for more information pertaining to your subject. Then again saving and documenting your findings is very important. It's always a good idea to have a pen and paper handy to write things down or you can use your cell phone to record a voice memo so that you don't forget your information or ideas. The main thing too is to have a subject that you're interested in and at the same time being aware of what information is valuable to your subject when it finally presents itself.  Third: Organizing, updating and improving your database so that it stays functional and easy to access. So my time is usually balanced between these three tasks, and yes it is time consuming. You can also use the
Big 6 techniques when gathering Information to help with your efficiency and effectiveness. I also created a Internet Searching Tips Page for useful ideas.
One last thing: if you spend a lot of time on the internet doing searches and looking for answers you are bound to come across some really useful websites and information that were not relevant to what you were originally searching for. So it's a good idea to start saving these useful websites in new categories or just save them in a appropriate named folder in your documents. This way you can share these websites with friends or just use them at some later time. It is sometimes called Creating Search Trails, which I have 12 years worth as of 1999. Not bad for a Personal Web Page.

I’m an Internet Pathfinder whose task it is to carry out Daily Internet Reconnaissance Missions and document my findings.
No, I'm not an Internet Guru or a Gatekeeper but I have created an excellent Internet Source.
Our physical journeys in the world are just as important as our Mental Explorations in the Mind, the Discoveries are Endless.

So in a way my Human Search Engine is my Dissertation. My Thesis is Basic Knowledge 101 and proving the importance of a
Human Operating System in regards to having a more Comprehensive and Effective Education.

This is my Tenure....My Education Knowledge Database Project...

Working on this project I went from an Undergraduate Study, through Postgraduate Education right into a Graduate Program.
I started out as a Non-Degree Seeking Student but I ended up with a Master's Degree and a Doctoral Degree, well almost.
I have done my fieldwork, I have acquired specialized skills, I have done advanced original Research.  My Business Card
But I still have no name for my Advanced Academic Degree. Maybe "Internet Comprehension 101"   HyperLand (Youtube)
Is anyone actually studying the Internet? In some ways they are. Internet Studies. I wonder what they're learning?
There is also Web Science, which is not the same as Web of Science or Information Science, Peer-to-peer, Open Source, 
and Free Open Access. I wonder who else is studying these subjects in this particular way besides me?

What have I Learned..
I am a Semantic Web as well as a Human Search Engine. Humans will always be better then machines when it comes to associations, perceptions, Perspectives, Categorizing and Organizing, something's need to be done manually. Especially when it comes to organizing information and knowledge. Linking Data, Ontology learning, Library and information science, creating a Visual Thesaurus and Tag Clouds is what I have been doing for 10 years. " Welcome to Web 3.0." I'm an Intelligent Agent combining Logic and Fuzzy Logic, because there are just some things that machines or Artificial Intelligence cannot do or do well.
Automated Reasoning Systems and Computational Logic can only do so much. So we need more Humans then computer Algorithms. Creating knowledge bases is absolutely essential. This is why I believe that having more Human Search Engines is a benefit to anyone seeking knowledge and information. (Human Based Genetic Algorithms) Structuring websites into syntax link patterns and information into categories or Taxonomies without being objective or impartial. Organizing information and websites so that visitors have an easy time finding what they're looking for (Principle of least effort), plus at the same time, showing them other things that are related to that particular subject that might also be of interest to them. (Abstraction) (Relational Model). More relevant choices and a great alternative and complement to Search Engines. But it's not easy to manage and maintain a human search engine, especially for one person. You're constantly updating the link data base, adding links, replacing links or removing some links altogether. Then on top of that there's the organizing and the adding of content, photos and video. And all the while your website grows and grows. Adding related subjects and subcategorizing information and links. Cross linking or Cross-Referencing so that related information can be found in more then one place while at the same time displaying more Connections and more Associations.


What Looking for Adventure.com Represents..
This Website is a Web Portal, it's a Blog, it's Knowledge Engineering, it's Reverse Engineering, it's an Archive, it's a Network,
it's Information Science, it's Library Science, it's Library and information Sciences, it's Interdiscipline, it's Archival Science,
it's a Master Directory, it's a Web Directory, it's a Website Library, it's a Database, it's a Knowledge Base, it's Data Clustering,
it's Structured Grouping, It's a Thesaurus, it's Unsupervised Learning, it's Reflective Practice, It's Research, it's an Interface,
it's a File System, it's an Organic Search Engine,  it's Human-based Computation, it's Social Search, it's a Web Index,
it's a Web of Life, it's a Window to the World, it's Hyperlinking, it's Contextual Information, It's a Manuscript, it's a Diary, it's a Journal,
it's a couple of Novels, it's a few Essays, it's an E-book, it's a Quest, it's an Adventure, it's a Text Adventure, it's an Information Hub,
it's a Human Search Engine and it's A Lot of Work. I have been working an average of 20 Hours a week since 1999 and over 50 Hours a week since 2006. The website has to continually improve to increase it's service qualities for internet surfers. I'm like an isle in the internet library. Organizing data out of necessity while making it a value to others at the same time. Eventually connecting to other human search engines around the world to expand it's reach and capabilities. With over 500 Million Websites containing 100's of millions of web pages on the World Wide Web, there's a lot of information to be organized. And with almost 2 billion people on the internet there's a lot of  minds to collaborate with. My Human Search Engine Design Methods are always improving. I'm constantly Multitasking so I do make mistakes from time to time, especially with proof reading my own writing, which seems almost impossible (Writers Blindness). This is why writers and authors have proof readers and copy editors, which is something I cannot afford right now, so please excuse me for my spelling errors and poor grammar. Besides that I'm still making progress and I'm always acquiring new knowledge, which always makes these projects fascinating and never boring.  The Adventures in Learning
You can also look at my website as web Indexing. Web-indexing.org definition of Web Indexing: Web indexing means creating indexes for individual Web sites, intranets, collections of HTML documents, or even collections of Web sites. Indexes are systematically arranged items, such as topics or names, that serve as entry points to go directly to desired information within
a larger document or set of documents. Indexes are traditionally alphabetically arranged. But they may also make use of Hierarchical Arrangements, as provided by thesauri, or they may be entirely hierarchical, as in the case of taxonomies. An index might not even be displayed, if it incorporated into a searchable database. Indexing is an analytic process of determining which concepts are worth indexing, what entry labels to use, and how to arrange the entries. As such, Web indexing is best done by individuals skilled in the craft of indexing, either through formal training or through self-taught reading and study. A Web index is often a browsable list of entries from which the user makes selections, but it may be non-displayed and searched by the user typing into a search box.
A site A-Z index is a kind of Web index that resembles an alphabetical back-of-the-book style index, where the index entries are hyperlinked directly to the appropriate Web page or page section, rather than using page numbers.
Interwiki Links     Search Engine Indexing
I like to describe my website as being kind of like a lateral Blog then the usual Linear Blog because I update multiple pages at once instead of just one. As of 2010 around 120,000 new weblogs are being created worldwide each day, but of the 70 million weblogs that have been created only around 15.5 million are actually active. Though blogs and  User-Generated Content are useful to some extent I feel that too much time and effort is wasted, especially if the information and knowledge that is gained from a blog is not organized and categorized in a way that readers can utilize and access their archives like they would do with newspapers. This would probably take a Central Location for all the blogs to submit too. This way useful knowledge and information is not lost in a sea of confusion. This is one of the reasons why this websites information and links will continue to be organized and updated so that the website continues to improve and also that it never stops being surprising and exhilarating. The look and quality of this site will also improve as it has from the beginning. So always refresh your browser when returning to the site to get the latest changes and updates, (sometimes cleaning out your temporary internet files & cookies in your Browser helps too). Navigating around the thousands of pages in this website is not always perfect. Sometimes using the back button on the browser is a better choice when viewing certain pages and photos because some of the photos are sometimes linked to other pages so the back button below the photo might not necessarily take you back from where you started. Since photography and travel fit so well together there will always be more photos, more photo tips, more interesting links, more travel info, and of course more adventure.
Looking for Adventure.com Directory Project is the work accumulated from one Human Editor..   The Power of One
The Internet and Computer Digital Information combined are some of the few technologies that allows a person to save the work that they have done and create a living record of information and experiences..example ' Looking for Adventure.com ' "not a total copy of my life but getting close" Things don't have to be written in stone anymore, but it doesn't hurt to have an extra copy.
"There's a lot you don't know, welcome to web 3.0"  This is not just my version of the internet, this is my vision of the internet.
And this is not philosophy, it's just the best idea I have so far until I can find something better to add to it, replace it or change it.
A Think Tank who's only major influence is Logic.

Information overload..      Information Overload  (Wiki)          Web 3.0 (Vimeo Video)
It would be ignorant to say that we have too much information and it is impossible to filter it all. That's like walking into a library and saying there's too many books. You don't have to read every book. You just have to know which books to read and why you should read them and when. This is not an Information Paradox for this goes beyond Physical Information. We should be thankful that we have an abundance of information. Our task, and the task that I have taken, is to filter the information, narrow it down and Organize it into Categories and manageable chunks. This information and knowledge is priceless. This is the world’s greatest and most valuable asset. So information and knowledge needs our full attention and understanding so that it does not become abused or misused. Information overload is an Oxymoron. Too much of anything of course is bad, and of course too much of something that you don't have the intelligence or understanding to handle is extremely bad. So a person needs not only ‘Information Literacy’, a person also needs to fully understand balance, variety and self-discipline. Choices should only be about fitting a particular purpose or need. The world does not need a thousand different types of cell phones. We should only have cell phones that provide a particular purpose or need. And all the other manufactures should just get together and combine their technology and efforts into only a handful of cell phones. They say "Knowledge is Power". But if knowledge is distributed equally then that power will be equal to all, which in turn will make knowledge a blessing instead of a curse.    More on Managing Information     Information Visualization     Information Sources
 

"The collector is the true resident of the interior.....The collector dreams his way not only into a distant or bygone world
but also into a better one"..   - Walter Benjamin

"I can't fight every battle that comes my way, for if I did, I would be fighting all day"     Fight or Flight?

"You are not here to waste time, you are here to use time, and that time that you use is from the time that I saved you,
now it's your turn to save time for someone else."

Some of the things I would like to do in the future...
 

Purchase a Biodiesel Class A Motor Home.  (Mobile Earth Ship or Green Machine)  RV Websites
Reason 1) To be able to move where the jobs are and not have to worry about finding a place to live when moving.
Reason 2) To live a low impact life style. RV’s use less water and energy to live in. Will utilize Solar Power, Small Wind Turbines, and Fuel Cells. Will use waste and garbage to make compost for gardens.
Reason 3) To educate people on all the latest technologies that there is that would show people how to live a sustainable and low impact life style. My Carbon Count    Green Ideas
Reason 4) With broadband, satellite, cell phones and wi-fi, I will always be in contact with everyone and also be able to update my website with new adventures, people and places of interest, activities to enjoy and other cool and interesting stuff. Will also use my adventure website to educate and inspire people to enjoy the outdoors and to show them the importance of having adventure and sports in their life. This endless adventure will have some similarities to the documentary called Go Further with Woody Harrelson, Voice Yourself.com. The Veggie Van guy is another example. He just came out with a great documentary called Fuel. And I'm sure I will never be as famous as the Winnebago Man, but I can definitely relate to Jack Rebney, life can be freaking frustrating at times.  

Purchase a flex-fuel diesel/gasoline plug-in electric vehicle to tow behind RV.   Electric Cars Information
Use the car to make short trips and not have to drive the RV. Will also have Bicycles.
I will also use my photography and video skills to show people images and videos of our beautiful world while educating them about our environment. So I will also be a mobile photography studio with video editing and printing capabilities. Be a Park Host

Buy Land all over the World to Preserve and Protect that would also act as Time-Shares and Farming Schools.
This would help bring awareness to the importance of protecting our parks and open spaces. Land Conservation Websites
Buying land will also provide places to park the RV and I would also be able to share it with others when not occupied. On each piece of land I would like to start Forest Gardens to provide food and also teach people about Sustainable Farming and Living.

Design a laptop computer and install as much educational material it can handle and then distribute them all around the world to people who are in need of education and who want to teach others. Each laptop will have a solar charger, wireless Internet capabilities, Webcam, Headphones, external hard drive to store, share and back up material, and an external CD and DVD-RW drive if the PC does not have one built in. Each laptop will also have a built in flash drive so that it can also act like a digital book reader. Each PC will also have a Virtual Animated Teacher that will guide the student through all the subjects and computer programs. Each laptop would also have video and audio instructions on how to use the laptop. Each laptop will have the ability to change languages, teach languages and translate languages so that most people around the world would be able to use the laptops in almost any language. Basic Knowledge 101 &  My Laptop Idea

I would also like to open up colleges that are free for everyone. The Free Colleges will only teach courses and skills for jobs that are ready to be filled. And only the jobs and careers that make a positive difference in society. The free colleges will also teach courses and skills that can be applied to almost any career that you choose so that you don't waste time learning skills and knowledge that you will never use.  Education Options     Make a Living by Making a Difference

Start Micro Lending Bank and or Support other Micro Lending Banks.   Micro Credit