"Money comes and money goes, but time can never be replaced. To waste someone's money is a slap on the wrist, but to waste someone's time is the biggest crime you can commit."
Adventure is a simple concept. Everything new and worthwhile has come from adventure. From classic adventurers like Christopher Columbus to the common adventurer, you, we all seek and thirst for the road less traveled. Almost like pioneers, adventure fills a void in our thrill seeking lives and puts us at ease. It makes a restless soul calm.
Adventure is extremely important to me and it keeps the gears in my mind/body constantly turning. The most important advice I can give to having a good adventure is to control what you can, but don't worry about the extraneous factors. Weather always changes, and every adventurer knows that once a journey starts, it never goes as planned. Instead of trying to control variables like this, control factors that can directly affect or influence an adventure.
Don't plan an adventure by deciding who to go with. If you're like me then you have a secret bucket-list stored away of adventures that you want to go on before you die. Open up that list and pick an adventure. Work towards making it real, and once it is established throw out an invite to friends and family. Those who truly want to go on that adventure will reach out to you and make it happen. There is no need to work around the schedule or adapt the venture to their liking if they truly want to be a part of it. Don't miss out on adventure because a friend backs out, or changes the dates on you so you can no longer do what you set out to accomplish. I understand that this can come across as being selfish, and it honestly is. If the person can't enjoy your adventure than leave them at home and bring them back a souvenir.
Just go! Adventure now is better than adventure later as I like to say. The truth is that life never makes a "best" time for you to go do something. The "best" time is here and now so take advantage of it and #GetOutside. Time is something we have a very limited amount of on this Earth, so use your time wisely and make a drastic decision every once-in-a-while. Leave the second guessing and trip planning for your elderly years. You'll have more time to sit around then then you do now.
Enjoy the little things. There are many factors of an adventure that can make it good or bad. Don't get bogged down on the bad moments. Seek happiness in the little accomplishments, and truly reward yourself after big accomplishments. In the end you're still outside, so that in my book still counts as a good adventure!
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