Sure, it could be the kind that needs plane tickets and permits, special sports or safety equipment or a guide, and thrilling risks, like treacherous terrain and terrifying megafauna…
Adventure can also mean looking at the everyday with fresh eyes and a sense of wonder, examining your environment for new possibilities, and finding fun and challenges in your own backyard!
It’s whatever gets you excited, gets your blood moving, and gets you active and activated, and the desire to explore and learn and grow.
An old outdoor book that shaped me pretty early on used the phrase, “miniature adventure” for short local trips (for that author, these were mostly canoeing and camping trips that could be completed in a weekend within a few hours from home). I try to bring this spirit to my own explorations. Sadly that book is long out of print, but its title holds true… “It’s a Wise Woodsman Who Knows What’s Biting Him.” (If you love puns and the outdoors as much as I do, pick up a used copy of that book if you can find one).
You don’t need a passport and a big budget to have a big adventure! You just need to get bit by the adventure bug, so let’s go! (but don’t forget to pack the bug spray)
We made a quick road trip up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan last weekend which was long overdue for some free public land camping. This time, instead of backpacking, we did some boondock car camping and hiking in the national forest…
After my 20+ year old Walrus Rapeede 4-season tent stubbornly refused to let me repair it we needed a new tent for the annual “float” trip, and we needed it quickly, because our we were leaving in a few days. We looked…
I’m working on my (hopeful) future UP resident entrance exam submission by cooking up some pasties, both plain and fancy, and trying to perfect my venison pasty recipe… I assume this will be on the test? Either way, these savory pockets of…
Enjoy this photo essay of stunning Sunday sunsets over the Douglass Park lagoon, “catch and release” squirrel hunting with the fellas, sycamore seed balls and dappled bark, chinkapin, honey locust, hackberry, and bodark, hundred+ acre park walks, honking geese flocks and a…
Some snapshots from my weekend witch walks with the fellas in our local haunts… Foraging a fistful of yarrow, mugwort, bergamot, crabapples and hawthorn. I’m using these foraged treasures and brewing up some meads- the photos in this post are of a…
#TBT to that day I turned forty. Like many of my friends’ fortieths and other birthdays lately, it wasn’t what I had expected, but at least I got to spend it with my favorite fellas. And like the past few years, nothing…