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 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: Define Adventure |
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I see a lot of people talking about adventure like it's something you get on the weekends after you park your humvee at the nearest campsite (replete with bathroom amenities). This makes me puke.
So what is adventure to you?
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| paul wrote: | | To me an adventure is something that is exciting, and potentially has an element of risk associated with it. |
I'd like to add that adventrure means different things to different people. To someone who has lived their whole life in a town of 500, adventure would be picking up and moving to a big city. Someone else, who has always been used to the grandest amenities might consider roughing it for a week adventure. One's idea of adventure is going to be reflective of their every day life.
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| Quote: | | One's idea of adventure is going to be reflective of their every day life |
Well put Michelle,
To me adventure would be for example, my 3 weeks Costa Rica trip in Nov where I will try for the 1st time to travel via local buses instead of renting a car/truck.
Yeah, I think that would keep things adventureous, considering I am planning to Travel
from the pacific to the Mediterean and into Panama.
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| Adventure is a text based game first published by Atari in 1978 |
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I think travel itself is a bit of an adventure. But to specifically define "adventure travel," there needs to be an element of activity to it -- something active, outdoorsy, and probably off the usual tourist path.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| Stephen Bradley wrote: | | Adventure is a text based game first published by Atari in 1978 |
I think I like this answer best.
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I would describe it as doing something you would not normally do or something with an element of risk as Paul says. Eg going to somewhere high risk like Israel or somewhere with an extra element of danger associated with it !
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| paul wrote: | To me an adventure is something that is exciting, and potentially has an element of risk associated with it.
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Acting as the general contractor on a kitchen remodel.
Driving the Irish country-side.
For that matter, driving in Boston. Except that's not fun.
I think adventure implies expanding your frame of reference, as YLP suggested; otherwise, it's just risk.
When I was younger, an adventure was any experimental or thoughtless act with near-disastorous results that would provide a very funny story later in life. [Actually, that also describes levelling the pantry sub-floor just two years ago ...] In fact, 'Think of it as an adventure" was code for "We really f' upped this time, didn't we?"
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A new experience. Good, bad or otherwise, it is an experience and you can choose to do it again or not. Adventure does not have to be dangerous or exciting. It might be simply sleeping under the stars in your back yard or running with the bulls through tight streets and no where to hide.
Adventure is stepping out of your comfort zone. |
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| Adventure is doing something interesting that you haven`t done before,visiting a foreign country or even a place in your own country,it doesn`t depend on the location if you have a great time ! |
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Websters:
Adventure: 1. an exciting and dangerous undertaking 2. an unusual, stirring, often romantic experience
...getting married?
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| Quote: | | I'd like to add that adventrure means different things to different people. To someone who has lived their whole life in a town of 500, adventure would be picking up and moving to a big city. Someone else, who has always been used to the grandest amenities might consider roughing it for a week adventure. One's idea of adventure is going to be reflective of their every day life. |
I agree with you Michelle. Your point gets proven the more people post what an adventure is for them.
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Well, in this forum, "Adventure" should be something that isn't a part of daily routine (for most of us) IMO. For example, crossing Himalayas on foot sounds like an adventure to me ...
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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ADVENTURE = going somewhere you haven't been before and doing something you haven't done before... and please take your camera so you can boast when you get home!!!
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