Recognition

Richmond Times-Dispatch
March 19, 1998

In his "Mental wanderlust can be satisfied by traveling the World Wide Web" story, Paul Kyber included a brief review of Adventure Living. Here's his review:

This site was created with the expressed hope of inspiring computer potatoes to get off their fat you-know-whats and embark on some real adventure. The pictures and stories are inspiring, but not enough to get me to skydive.

Internet Monitor Magazine
Link of the Day
March 8, 1998

The Internet Monitor Magazine also provided a review of Adventure Living. Unfortunately, it is not written in English. I don't know what it says.

Netsurfer Digest
Volume 4, Issue 7
March 3, 1998

The Netsurfer Digest gave Adventure Living a glowing review. I couldn't ask for a better one. (They got the part about my arm wrong, but who cares?) Here's what they had to say:

The Renaissance Adventurer

Adventure Living celebrates the lifestyle of those who feel most alive when most active. Site creator Carl dos Santos, whose right arm is "pretty much useless" because of a skiing accident that he describes (and displays with a horrific x-ray) as a "medical adventure", is up front about his own zeal for skydiving and provides great aerial photos of himself and fellow daredevils in freefall. He's also posted a couple of large movie files and a slide show for sedentary rubberneckers. When sky doesn't satisfy, there's always sea. Scuba diver dos Santos, certified with his bum arm, and 30 correspondents supply plenty of watery prose, photos, or both to commemorate good times while whitewater rafting, sailing the South Seas, or biking the Gulf Coast. The color and compressed energy of this site show skill, stamina, and vision. This guy has mastered land, air, sea, and the Web. Eat your heart out, Ernest Hemingway! Carl invites you to submit your own materials to this fine testament to muscle and will.
http://www.adventureliving.com/

PC home Daily Magazine
365 Best Sites on the Web (1997)

They did not write any reviews, they just included Adventure Living in their list. (This site is not in English.)

SmartTV Magazine
URLs 4 TV
Spring 1998

SmartTV is a magazine designed for people surfing via set-top boxes (such as the WebTV). Their URLs 4 TV list is "a surf guide to the best Web sites on TV." This quarter Adventure Living was one of the 13 sites they chose. They pointed their link at my slideshow since it is specifically designed for the WebTV.

HomePC Magazine
Best of the Web (1997)

HomePC Magazine included Adventure Living in their list of the 500 best sites on the web. They listed it in the Hobbies section. Here's what they had to say:

Adventure Living (www.adventureliving.com/) Whether it's scuba, sky-diving, whitewater rafting, sailing or biking, thrill seekers will find loads of information about heart-pounding hobbies, including equipment reviews, photos, tips and tales of the Webmaster's forays into the unknown.

Microsoft Corp
Best of the Web - Great Outdoors edition
July 7 - 11 & 14, 1997

Here's what they had to say (they used the title "Adventure People" instead of "Adventure Living"):

Adventure People
If Indiana Jones is your hero, you'll love this site. This is the place for people to share adventure stories, photographs, links, and other travel information. Contributor sections include skydiving, scuba diving, whitewater rafting, exotic journeys, sailing, and bicycling.

ALLWORLD Internet Services
Site of the Weekend
10-12 Jan 1997

What is an adventure? Stop by Adventure Living to find out! The author created it so people from all over the world can share their adventures via stories, photos, information, event listings and links. While some of the stories are from the U.S., others come from visitors around the world! Whether you are looking to expand your world or live vicariously through others, you will enjoy it. As the author says, " Do you prefer to live life, or watch it slide by?" This site will help with either.

In some ways, life around here needs a little more adventure, and in others, much, much less. This was a nice little getaway this weekend. We hope you agree.

Cortney's Web Picks
-- Adventure Living was listed as one of Cortney's Web Picks for January 3, 1997.

Xtra
Xtra Cool
December 31, 1996

Xtra listed the skydiving portion of Adventure Living as an "xtra cool" site at the top of their sports section on Dec 31, 1996.
They had this to say about the skydiving section of Adventure Living:

Why another Skydiving site? asks the author of this cohesive experience in all the perils and joys of skydiving. Learn all about Terminal Velocity and the sort of stresses you could be putting your body under if you ever decide to indulge in this crazy pastime.

EarthLink - TeenZone
-- Freefall is listed as a "Cool Link".

NetGate wrote up something about Adventure Living and gave it four out of five stars. Unfortunately, their site isn't in English, so I don't know what they said about Adventure Living.

SIMPLICITER - Excellence Without Excess
-- I think this is a great award! Probably the best on the web! Check out why he gives this award:

Excellence Without Excess is dedicated to the recognition of Web authors who have succeeded in creating profound, informative, intelligent and entertaining pages without the use of extraneous graphic devices that reduce accessibility, usability, efficiency and depth of content. It exists to celebrate good taste and moderation, to reward those who rely on their own ingenuity -- not on a set of prepackaged attention-grabbing tools -- to create worthwhile programming for this new communication medium.

Jumping out of planes isn't my cup of tea, but this site just exudes enthusiasm.