| What does the term adventure travel mean to | | | | previously unknown ancestors name in the |
| you? It can mean many different things to | | | | archival records of a small town can be as |
| different people and for those that are uninitiated | | | | exciting for the history lover as catching a trophy |
| into the world of adventure travel it often | | | | rainbow trout is to an ardent fisherman. |
| involves Indiana Jones types of images. Things like | | | | While most people would agree that adventure |
| Man against nature, struggling to cross a scorching | | | | travel that involves activities like sky diving, |
| desert, or a stormy sea. Possible risking their life | | | | mountain climbing, kayaking the rapids or caving is |
| in some far flung region of the world that is torn | | | | an exciting adventure indeed. But adventure travel |
| apart by war and strife. Or it might bring up | | | | can also include a leisurely trip on the Mississippi |
| images of crawling deep into a pitch black cave or | | | | River in a paddle wheeler, a saunter across the |
| dangling from the site of a mountain on a rope. | | | | English landscape in search of a certain species of |
| Do all of these images equate to adventure | | | | bird, a tour of the wineries of southern France, or |
| travel? Well, not really, some people that are into | | | | a shell-collecting outing on an out-of-the-way |
| adventure travel might seek out some of these | | | | Caribbean beach. |
| more extreme types of activities but not | | | | Adventure travel does not have to be to a far |
| everyone. Adventure travel is really whatever | | | | away place. You do not have to go by plane, train |
| you want it to be. It might or might not involve | | | | or bus to experience some adventure travel. |
| physical risk this is not a requirement. It might or | | | | There are many opportunities well within driving |
| might not mean traveling to an exotic far flung | | | | distance of your house. They are not as well |
| place. It might or might not cost a small fortune it | | | | revealed as major sites or operations, so people |
| really depends on you. Any time you travel | | | | have to look for them. They can include small |
| somewhere, anywhere if you have a new | | | | local museums, houses of special interest (the |
| experience that you have never had before or | | | | birthplace of a famous person), small sanctuaries |
| some type of new experience that you don't do | | | | for wildlife and flora, restored buildings or even |
| everyday then you have had an adventure. | | | | communities dating back to historic times, and so |
| Of course there are as many different types of | | | | on. Even if one does not own a car, there are |
| adventure travel as there are people in the world. | | | | sometimes local bus tours to this site, or |
| So often you can find something that is exciting | | | | excursions organized by social groups. |
| to you and based on your own interests. For | | | | Sure adventure travel might take you to that far |
| example a history buff might not be the least | | | | flung place on a crazy intense adventure and test |
| interested in a vacation in Las Vegas or a visit to | | | | of wills but it can just as easily be a trip to |
| Disney World. But he or she might be thrilled to | | | | somewhere close to your home and local. |
| tour the Tower of London, visit the Alamo in San | | | | Adventure travel is wherever you can find it and |
| Antonio, Texas, or stand at the Irish graveside of | | | | on whatever scale you are ready for. |
| some long dead ancestor. The discovery of some | | | | |