Do You Have A Sense Of Adventure?

Lon said:
At My age now, my adventures consist of things like walking down three flights of stairs from my apartment to the SPA with out tripping and falling down or falling into the SPA and drowning. This morning my BIG Adventure was calling UBER to take me to the VA to have my Hearing Aids adjusted and then back home. My big adventure later today will be to walk some what painfully two blocks to Wallgreen's and back to pick up a pain reliever. Ah My ---How things change as we age.
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Just one question, Sir.....Why am I not included in your list of Friends in your Profile?

HDH
 

It depends on your definition of adventure. I once read "Adversity recalled, is adventure".
I don't agree with that one. Adventure is personal. Travelling, esp in style or group tours, are not adventure to me, but so many others count it as their adventures. Even if they are seeing whatever city or location from a 4 star hotel room.
I learned many years ago in the boy scouts to 'Be prepared'. In my world travels in the Air Force, I learned that every location, situation (and person) has their pros and cons. As such, I haven't had much adversity in my life. Sure, things didn't always go as I planned or hoped, but THAT IS adventure. Figuring out how to make the best of the situation and options.
I literally danced in the eye of a typhoon. It was an opportunity of a lifetime. It was eerily calm and serene, yet pensive and ominous. The wind and rain before and after were anything but calm. Hard to say which was the bigger adventure.
 

Only if I were in a luxurious hotel room that was being burglarized by men/women with guns & I came out alive, would I call that an adventure. :)

Otherwise, only being in and surviving never before explored, possibly dangerous unknown places would I consider a REAL adventure. :)
 
Lon said:
At My age now, my adventures consist of things like walking down three flights of stairs from my apartment to the SPA with out tripping and falling down or falling into the SPA and drowning. This morning my BIG Adventure was calling UBER to take me to the VA to have my Hearing Aids adjusted and then back home. My big adventure later today will be to walk some what painfully two blocks to Wallgreen's and back to pick up a pain reliever. Ah My ---How things change as we age.
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...as long as we keep looking at these everyday things of life as an 'adventure' we'll be fine.
 
Congratulations on taking the path few travel for fear of the unknown.

In reading your post your "adventure" in a way mirror's mine in that after almost 30 years as a craftsman in the printing trade I moved to Alaska and spent 14 of my 20 years in Alaska living off-grid in its Northern wilderness only to return to my family now living in Texas. Now like yourself any people I knew here in the lower 48 have died or moved and my few friends in Alaska are thousands of miles away. Like yourself I feel the burden of 72 years of life on my shoulders and have told myself if I ever wanted to return to where my soul resides I would have to do it soon. I am planning to return to Alaska next spring but even if it does not happen like yourself I have the many memories of being in a land touched by the hand of God.

Best of luck on your continued walk down life's road.
Pete
https://kl1hbalaska.wordpress.com/about/
 
HiDesertHal said:
Adventure? Certainly not!

Adventure is overrated anyway.

Hal
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Olivia. LOL

Well at least a telemarketing phone call is sometimes an adventurous challenge. Got my blood flowing fast when I 'faught' with the telemarketer over why I would not/could not donate. I eventually learned to just say I wouldn't be contributing, sorry -- right in the middle of their spiel--then immediately hang up. (feeling alittle rude and guilty)

My health at 81 is fine, if you don't count the physical & emotional difficulties (and the depression concomitant with Essential Tremors) that its (for me) full body shaking causes. I'm blessed though to not have any physical pain. :) Accomplishing any action daily shaking is a real adventure. :)

www://tremortales.com
 
At 62, I'm still waiting to become a senior. (Good genes.) Running a big band these last ~15 years has been my pride and joy. It's a lot of work, but boy howdy it's fun.

Still do some work on the side, but I cherry picked the kind of work I enjoyed and make enough to pay off the utilities each month so that's something. When I get really adventurous, I sub in different bands where I'm sightreading all the music. Sometimes I get a little money for that too. I tell the young ones I meet that I'm glad I went the music route vs. the sport life because I'm still playing and the sport athletes are long past playing ... well, say football, etc.

Music, art, tennis, golf, those are the things that can be with you through most of our lives.
 
No, I'm a homebody!

I'm not a traveler either. I travel only through the medium of Books, Video Travelogues, and Documentaries.

The only trip I ever took (beside my transportation to the Orient furnished by the US Army in 1961), was a 400-mile drive to the Grand Canyon.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no more breathtakingly beautiful place on Earth!

And I don't need to see Rome before I die!

Harry
 
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Camper6 said:
Good for you. I love riding a bike. Just recently mine needed repairs and I really missed it.

I fixed it myself. It' only took me ten hours of fooling around with the derailler. I should have taken a picture before I started.

But now I'm back in the saddle again.
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That's why I hate derailleurs! The chain doesn't run true from sprocket to sprocket. A couple years ago I bought a nice SUN 26" bike for around $1000.

I paid extra to have the derailleur system removed and have a 3-speed planetary gear set installed in the rear hub, with the coaster brake still operational and a brake on the front wheel. I can shift through the 3 gears with the pedals stationary, and the chain runs true with no tension changes.

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When I was a child, my parents took me on many educational vacations around North America.
We would mostly camp out... by lakes, in the mountains, in the desert, etc. It was a wonderful.
You have never seen the stars unless you have camped out in the darkness of the remote desert.

Traveling today could never be the same because the world is different. Traveling as an adult
pales in comparison to what I experienced as a child.
 
KingsX said:
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When I was a child, my parents took me on many educational vacations around North America.
We would mostly camp out... by lakes, in the mountains, in the desert, etc. It was a wonderful.
You have never seen the stars unless you have camped out in the darkness of the remote desert.

Traveling today could never be the same because the world is different. Traveling as an adult
pales in comparison to what I experienced as a child.
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No, it can never match the pure wonderment of your childhood experiences, but it can be its own new experience. The park rangers call it the "shoulder season". It is essentially the time when the weather is great but the kids are still in school. Suddenly, in the national and state parks, there appear retirees in everything from VW campers to motorhomes. Sometimes someone will pull out a guitar around the campfire and start singing the old folk songs. Others are welcomed around the campfire, some bring wine. It is a great time to meet new people with interesting backgrounds and perspectives. We love it.

There are still the spots in the desert or mountains where you can go and be alone under the stars. There can still be the beauty and wonder of it all, and the quiet.
 
Retirement

Aunt Bea said:
Nope, I'm pretty much a homebody.

For me the perfect vacation is a week in a rustic cabin by a lake with a book, some booze, good coffee and lots of bacon!!!

I think about going on a vacation to England, Ireland or Scotland but I want to see those places as they were before WWI and have no interest in seeing what they are today, I tune in to the local PBS station for my wild adventures, LOL!!!
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I'm with ya....cabin, booze ,coffee an football
 
I'm not sure what 'adventure' means. DW and I are in mid 60's and still do mountain hiking in western national parks in the U.S. and Canada. If hiking 8 miles with a 3000 foot climb up and down is adventure, then we're adventurous. We do week-long bike and hike trips too, but on bike trails. Nice, but pretty tame. We hike the UK every year too although, of course, their 'mountains' are what we would call hills around here.
 
I have been to 21 countries, fought in combat, played baseball and football on all star teams. I am living in my 9th house and used to spend 12 weeks a year travelling overseas on both pleasure and business. A lot more weeks travelling 26 U.S. States. My wife has been great supporiting and decorating all 9 houses plus being without me for a good part of each year. Plus I never had to worry about her when I was gone and the same for me.

I like to experience as much of life as I can, even the not so pleasent stuff. I used to put myslef in situations that I was uncomfortable with just so I would be forced to do them. I have lots of stories about my life which has not been traditional in all areas. I cannot believe some of the things I did back when I was younger. Now that I am fully retiring this month after working 3 days a week for the last two years, I am enjoying just staying at home. I have done everything in life that I wanted to. I have not only met every goal I had but exceeded them. I have had a full and exciting life and now I feel like been there and done that.

I do not know what the future will bring. For at least the rest of this year I intend to just write some of my adventures, watch TV, read, surf the web and do some things with my wif and a few of our friends. I used to go through two passports a year and now I just have the card one which is not good for flying out of the country. I only got it for ID since I used to need security clearance for my job. We sold off my car and just have my wife's now. I still have my amateur radio equipment and can do that from home. I did buy a lot of camera gear and intend to get back into photography which kept me occupied during my world travels. I have been here 8 years and we are already thinking where we can move next. We never lived in a desert State like Arizona and we have good friends living there but the thought of packing and moving at our age is holding us back.
 
I have an amazing sense of adventure.
Im done quite a bit of traveling to other countries, driven motorcycles, gone para sailing, go hiking all the time, horseback riding, skating, gone to painting parties.
 
Just returned from 5 days & 4 nights backpacking in the WV Wilderness. Spectacular weather = YAY! Really wore me out carrying a too heavy pack getting to a wonderful site in a spruce grove along a stream. Carried too much food, beer, puppy chow & gear for my new 6 month old rescue puppy. He really loved the stream! I let him run and he was in that stream every ten minutes which was good for him AND he politely showered me when he returned. That saved me the trouble of having to bathe while out there :) I love those adventures even tho' it was physically demanding.
 
Did the adventure thing for 30+ years! ;) Was great but it all started to look the same eventually, and I was glad to exit that life and live by the sea.

Nothing wrong with watching the surf roll in and out. Of course, if it wasn't for the internet, I'd feel very isolated, so there's the balance I seem to need. That, and the occasional drive on the coast highway.

Every once in a while, the adventure urge surfaces again but I get busy doing something and it passes. :)
 

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