Quotes About Adventure

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer' has little meaning. But exploration is nothing more than a faray into the unknown, and a four-year old child, wandering about along in the department store, fits the definition as well as the snow-blind man wandering across the Khyber Pass. The explorer is the person who is lost.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

That's why the words "Let's go!" are intrinsically courageous. It's the decision to go that is, in itself, entirely intrepid.

It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said.

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

It was a great place to run red lights, which I count as a fine recreational activity.

The point was the most dangerous place we would have to negotiate in the kayak. It was also a great confluence of life, and this combination of peril and substance sent the spirit spinning off into various ethereal regions, in which a man might be tempted to commit philosophy. From Baha by Kayak

Tofino Expeditions

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

Adventures are stories of discomfort told in comfort.

Motorcycle camping is an evolution and can take a lifetime to perfect.

I wandered around for hours, dodging falling poo in alleyways

The most exciting holidays are the ones where not everybody is going to make it.

But what do you think all that shooting was about?" "It's U.S. 1," said Serge. "So it doesn't have to be about anything.

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles. And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter

Cadillac Beach a novel TIM DORSEY

Mount Batten jumped up from his chair and ran yelling across the living room. He broke through the yellow crime scene tape across the front door like a finish line and kept on running.   Sharon

the Datura Avenue Shipwreck Snorkel Trail, just south of the pier at Commercial Boulevard.

Serge's definition of total happiness: Florida, a full tank of gas and no appointments.

Sand Key lighthouse. Johnny

we're way past the turnstiles at that theme park.