Words and photos by Abigail Demyanek. My friend Rachel and I started out our trip to Peru in a rush: I booked our tickets incorrectly and we were forced to leave an entire day earlier than expected. I geared up in a…

Words and photos by Brianna Madia. If you’ve been on the Internet in the last year, chances are you’ve seen photos of decked-out Sprinter vans, camper vans, and old Volkswagen buses, all made to look like mini wood-floored rolling apartments. You’ve also…

San Francisco-based graphic artist Benny Gold was hardly the first teenager to be infatuated with punk rock and skateboarding. He just never gave up on them. “I fell in love with skateboarding at 10 years old when I was walking into elementary…

Words and photos by Tara Michie. When my friends invited me to Cuba, I jumped at the opportunity because, until recently, it was a little tricky to travel to Cuba as a U. S. citizen. I booked my flight three days before…

Photos by Kate Rentz. Everyone drives in Los Angeles—at least, that’s how the saying goes. That’s probably because, at nearly 500-square-miles, it’s as sprawling as a metropolis can be. For LA photographer Kate Rentz, putting the car in park and stretching her…

The Teva Original was born in the Grand Canyon as two watchbands and a pair of flip flops, but it’s our patterned webbing designs that made the Original a true icon. From the classic Lizard jacquard webbing design that came through the…

 Words and photos by Chris Brinlee Jr. [ad·ven·ture] noun an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks. verb to proceed despite risk.   The word “adventure” has lost a lot of its meaning in today’s engagement-hungry, validation-starved, social-media-driven society. The word used…

Photos by Britney Gill. With 380 years of combined history (ok, 348 of those belong to Hudson’s Bay Company), heritage is no short supply with our newest collaboration: The Hudson’s Bay X Teva Original Universal and Flip sandals. With stripes that trace…

Our origin story goes like this: Teva (“teh-va”) was born in the Grand Canyon in 1984 when a river guide named Mark Thatcher rigged two Velcro watchbands to an old pair of flip flops, creating a sandal that wouldn’t float away. With…

Words and photos by Tara Michie. In Hawaiʻi we like to surf, wear Aloha shirts, eat lots of rice, and wear rubber slippers. The slipper (pronounced “slippah” by locals) is a Hawaiian-style staple. Known elsewhere as thongs, flip flops, or sandals, the…