Costa Rica Research Day Three

posted: May 18, 2011 

Pura Vida! O&A Adventurers hit the jungles, rivers, cloud forests and beaches for an ultimate research trip through Costa Rica! With the aim to explore as many adventure excursions as possible, Robert and Barbara packed their days to the brim with activity, and experienced some of the most beautiful, exotic, and remote areas the country had to offer. To...

Costa Rica Research Day Two

posted: April 28, 2011 

Pura Vida! O&A Adventurers hit the jungles, rivers, cloud forests and beaches for an ultimate research trip through Costa Rica! With the aim to explore as many adventure excursions as possible, Robert and Barbara packed their days to the brim with activity, and experienced some of the most beautiful, exotic, and remote areas the country had to offer. To...

Costa Rica Research Day One

posted: April 21, 2011 

Pura Vida! O&A Adventurers hit the jungles, rivers, cloud forests and beaches for an ultimate research trip through Costa Rica! With the aim to explore as many adventure excursions as possible, Robert and Barbara packed their days to the brim with activity, and experienced some of the most beautiful, exotic, and remote areas the country had to offer. Joined...

Weedon Island Kayak Research

posted: March 14, 2011 

The O&A Adventurers were out in the field for research once again, this time in Weedon Island Nature Preserve, exploring the 4-mile kayak loop through the mangrove tunnels.  The research team – consisting of Barbara and Robert – found the kayak exhilarating and breathtakingly beautiful! Following the route’s 38 numbered signposts, the...

Gulfport StandUp Paddle Research

posted: January 31, 2011 

It was a beautiful day to explore the tranquil Boca Ciega Bay off Gulfport Beach. The O&A research team – Robert, Barbara, and Brody Welte of StandUp Fitness – grabbed their paddle boards and headed out into this protected basin that extends outward from Gulfport past Isla del Sol and under the Pinellas Bayway, into the Gulf of Mexico. The waters...

Indoor Skydiving Research

posted: November 16, 2010 

O&A research hit a new high as Chief Adventure Officer Robert Geller and Director of Adventure Barbara Voglewede donned flight suits and entered the vertical wind chamber of iFly! Generating winds up to 130 mph, the chamber’s twin turbines simulate the “free fall” stage of skydiving, before the diver opens her/his parachute. Once...

Pilates Research

posted: October 26, 2010 

camille raciopio, (center) leads o&a director of adventure, barbara voglewede and o&a chief adventure officer, robert geller through the basics of proper breathing and an introduction to the most widely used piece of apparatus, and probably the most important, the reformer. accompanied by lpga pro megan younkman we got a sampling of various...

Kayak Research

posted: July 19, 2010 

monday morning board meeting, o&a style! o&a fitness coach, jeff giles, o&a director of adventure, barbara voglewede and o&a chief adventure officer, robert geller brainstorm o&a kayak adventures with sweetwater kayaks owner, russell farrow. we toured the northern portion of weedon island kayaking through mangrove tunnels....