Quotes About Adventure

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

I love day trips around L.A. I'm a huge Disneyland junkie - I go almost every other weekend.

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun.

For sheer excitement, a weekend in New York is unbeatable. Arrive on Friday morning, leave on Monday night, and don't worry about jet lag - just buzz for four days.

Miami's great. I love going there for a weekend of fun.

I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

The way I see it, the perfect weekend getaway combines three things: seeing new places, eating delicious local food, and combing the local flea market for unique, one-of-a-kind finds.

I've never been bitten by a shark, though God knows I had to poke a lot of them in the nose.

I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears.

Man, a polar bear almost grabbed me once.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.