Quotes About Adventure

It became a pattern over the course of the following weeks. Every few days, two, three, or sometimes four travelers would ring the bell at Casa Alpina. Pino would lead them out in the wee hours of the morning, climbing by what light the moon offered, and using the carbide miner's lamp only during cloud cover and the dark of the moon. On these trips, after handing over his charges to Bergstrom, he went to the shepherd's hut

On Halloween, Wendell, Floyd, and Mona were walking home from school when a black cat crossed their path. "Don't pet it, Floyd!" cried Wendell. "Don't you know that black cats are bad luck?" "That's just an old wives' tale," Mona said. "Besides, what could happen?" Wendell merely shook his head. "Anything can happen on Halloween.

Sanjay had crashed his light aircraft when he was stunt-flying over central Delhi.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

It was a monstrous big river down there.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot!

"Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

It's funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn't mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953," said Gideon. "Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.