Quotes About Adventure

I love poking and looking for things for the house, so I make a great many trips to Mexico.

My husband and I like to listen to books on road trips.

Traveling with my husband is great as he is a sponge for new languages and tries to learn them on our trips.

One of my favorite road trips of all time was here, in Australia, in Western Oz.

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.

I've always been a Jeep guy and I also drive a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle that's a 2007, but it's been all retrofitted to look like an old military cafe racer.

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.

People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.

I'm keen to get into trophy hunting, no animal in particular, but a big safari in Africa would be great.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Living in a small country town, there wasn't a whole lot to do so you find your own fun. I was always getting myself in trouble.