Our Mission:

To inspire people to embrace their fears and turn their dreams into reality.

Our story

On my first trip, bicycling across The United States, I realized that everyone I encountered was partaking in my adventure and were adventurers themselves. On the road, being a "crazy bicyclist" inspired many people to follow their dreams. Many people have emailed saying they quit their jobs and cycled countries like Cuba or Australia or Canada, or they have backpacked Europe, hiked the Inca trail, kayaked New Zealand. Some people told me they quit traveling because they were inspired to go home to the adventure of building a community or pursuing a new career or a new love or building a cabin in the woods. It has been my honor and privilege to have gotten so many emails over they years. And, believe me, I could never have accomplished my journey without all your words of kindness in return.

While I was cycling across the country, my "crazy" journey put an amazing sparkle of curiousity and wonder into people's eyes. So before I embarked on my personal quest around the world on a bicycle, I figured why should I be the only one to share my adventure, so I founded The Argonauts, Inc.:

An adventure-travel community dedicated to inspiring the human spirit by enabling people to venture into the unknown and sharing their dreams and discoveries with the world.

That was our idealistic mission statement when theArgonauts.com first came online in 1999. Our vision was to give adventurers, like Jason and the Argonauts, a forum to share the boon of their quests, like photos, maps, stories and new ideas. However, we were over-ambitious and ahead of our time. We were an online adventure magazine, before the notion of "webzine". Blogs didn’t even exist, and the programming required to match our vision would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and an extraordinary amount of work. Still the founding members of The Argonauts archived an impressive number of stories.

Thanks for supporting y/our dreams,
Scott Stoll and the team of volunteers at The Argonauts

Media coverage.

The Argonauts has been showcased a few times. Here's one of my favorites:
12 Personal Travel Websites That Will Make You Quit Your Day Job.

For more photos and information, please visit our press room.

Awards

Our site even won a handful of awards, that don't even exist anymore, such as a Golden Web Award, the Cool Site of the Day; we were even the Barnes & Noble Affliate of the month, and now they won't even put my book on the shelf.... Oh! The irony is painful.....