Monday, 12 May 2008

Adventure

"An adventure is a dangerous experience that leaves you with an interesting story to tell, if you survive." --Michael Banks



We all like to think we have a sense of adventure. The confidence to do extraordinary things, to push the envelope. Wikipedia says this of adventurers:
# One whose travels are unusual and often exotic, though not so unique as to qualify as exploration.
# One who lives by their wits.
# One who takes part in a risky or speculative course of action for profit or position

Mitchell Hedges
The prototypical adventurer, and some say prototype for Indiana Jones, Hedges told of his adventures fighting savages, discovering lost cities, fighting jaguars, etc, all done while smoking his pipe. Some of his stories might be tall tales, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story.? Read more about him here:



It's always nice to see ordinary people doing the extraordinary. Here, some 1980s swashbuckling corporate pirates...

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