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My girlfriend and I did an 8000-mile road trip around the western half of the US for REI. Along the way we visited as many National Parks as we could, and spent as many nights sleeping in a tent as we could handle. Adventuring doesn’t require traveling to a foreign country, sometimes it just requires a little motivation.
Editor’s Note: Ben Horton has gotten around. As a National Geographic photographer he’s covered every sort of adventure from diving with sharks off the Costa Rican coastline to dogsledding on Ellesmere Island. And he wants you to go, too. And if you don’t go to the arctic, or the Brazilian rainforest, maybe his imagery will inspire you to go somewhere you’ve been meaning to for a long time. Even if it’s just to the other side of the state you’re living in. Horton gives us the story behind nine of his favorite images from the last half decade or so. Images that represent a deep love of our planet, and protecting it.