![]() It’s for the daring, the prepared, and, to our point, the well equipped. If adventure were easy, everyone would do it. Adventure takes effort, skill, risk, and tools. Maybe it’s impossible to go where no one has gone before on Earth, but to get to places where only a few have been means crossing rugged terrain, surviving brutal elements, and beating a few new paths. As common as complaints about arduous travel experiences have become (“We had to wait 20 minutes for a gate to open, the idiots lost my bag, and a sandwich was $9.75!”), it’s really just travel.Īdventure is the leap beyond mere travel. To get from Toledo, Ohio, to Syracuse, New York, takes about 13 hours and costs less than $100 by Greyhound bus. ![]() Today, that’s a 4.5-hour plane trip that costs about $200. Walking speed is about 3 mph, so, for most of history, getting from, say, Toledo in Spain to Syracuse in Italy was a virtually impossible, treacherous 1800-mile journey that would take months with no certainty of survival. ![]() Humanity loves to roam, but only recently has it become easy to do so over long distances. ![]()
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