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How a TRAIN WRECK hike inspired Capsule Adventures
This origin story takes place on an 8-day hike through the Svaneti region of Georgia, taking a break from my cushy corporate job. I thought it’d be the kind of trip I’d tell my future kids about. Instead, with alcohol baked into the itinerary, someone crossed a line. There was a foiled sexual assault, the guide got fired, and the whole group dynamic went sideways.
By Day 3, the vibe started to recover. I was standing in front of this unreal mountainscape, and something in me cracked open—joy, clarity, creativity. The idea for Capsule Adventures hit me like a freight train. Sober adventure travel. Intentional travel. No alcohol. No drugs. No distractions. No BS.
F*ck it. Corporate America would survive without me. I had a better plan: help people trade the blur for something real. This is sober travel for people who are done waiting.
When I decided to create distraction-free travel, I didn’t see it as a restriction. Putting away the numbing agents creates a 4K experience in a sea of sameness. When you look back on the carousel of life, I want you to see your Capsule Adventure as an interruptor of the mundane. One that makes you think, that was the trip.
Hi, I’m Ryan
Founder | Trip Leader | No-Holds-Barred Conversationalist
March 16, 2021. That’s the day I got sober.
Two days earlier, I was lying on the floor of an Airbnb, convinced I was having a heart attack. I’d been using hard drugs every day and couldn’t tell the difference between panic and something fatal. I remember thinking… do I call 911, or just let this be it?
I called.
Spoiler alert! I wasn’t dying.
The doctor helpfully told me to take it easy next time. No real questions. No real advice. So as I stood on the curb waiting for an Uber, it hit me that no one was coming to fix this for me.
So I did it myself. I flew home. I left my job. I got support and spent 90 days learning to live without the things I’d used to avoid everything real.
That moment gave me clarity, and Capsule Adventures came from that clarity. A sober travel company built for people who want to feel everything. No alcohol. No drugs. No distractions. Just fully present, fully human experiences with people who get it.
The magic of ‘replacement’
Alcohol and drugs used to be euphoric. They made life feel thrilling. I assumed sobriety meant that kind of joy was over. But then I replaced the chaos with something better. First hiking. Then travel.
It was on a trip through Colombia, gripping the back of a mototaxi as it whipped around a mountain road, 18 of us screaming and laughing into the wind, that I felt joy again. Eleven months sober, and there it was. Unexpected. Unfiltered. Real.
Since then, it’s kept coming back. Through the clouds parting over Machu Picchu. On a glacier in Torres del Paine. Starting a fire with my bare hands. Standing 20 feet from a majestic African Elephant.
What started as a band-aid became something permanent. These sober travel experiences didn’t just help me stay sober while traveling. They brought color into my life.
That’s what sober adventure travel can do. When the moments are raw, surreal, and shared, they don’t just live in your head. They echo in the people who were there with you. That’s what makes them stick. That’s what makes them real.
This isn’t about mindfulness for its own sake. It’s about choosing to live in 4K because grey scale just isn’t enough anymore.
Break old patterns.
Awaken your joy.
Find incredible people.