PLAYING THE WILD CARD
For a unique mental and physical challenge, the tailored Get Lost adventures by luxury travel company Black Tomato ( blacktomato.com) promise a Bear Grylls–style immersion into the great outdoors, minus the extreme eating. Guests can decide how “lost” they would like to be and pick out the kind of terrain—either jungle, polar, desert, mountain, or coastal—for the adventure. But the rest is entirely up to Black Tomato, which will supply travelers with the necessary training and technical equipment before dispatching them to a remote area that could be anywhere in the world. As a support team keeps careful watch from a distance, participants must find their own way out via a series of checkpoints to claim a reward at the end of the expedition. It’s billed as a mindful way to engage with new surroundings and a chance for honest self-discovery. As Black Tomato co-founder Tom Marchant explains, “We believe there’s something about true disconnection from both technology and from the traditional format of luxury travel—guides, schedules, and so on—that allows us to tap into this new state of mindfulness.”