Category: adventure

Like Rules, Routines Are Made to Be Broken

The movie “Groundhog Day” tells the story of Phil Connors (Bill Murray), a man doomed to relive Feb. 2 over and over again. At one point, Phil says to two drinking buddies: “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did…


A Teen Thriller So Fun, Even Adults Will Love It

Beginning in England and then landing in France, the Britfield series includes two books with a third one (set in Italy) on the way. C. R. Stewart joins the show to discuss how he took the idea of two orphans, displaced royalty, a vast array of colorful characters, and turned the entire globe on its…


Making Your Life an Adventure

Adventure. The word can bring to mind many scenarios. We may think of Lewis and Clark crossing uncharted territory that later became the United States. We may imagine Amelia Earhart flying solo over the Atlantic, Neil Armstrong taking that first step for mankind when he set foot on the moon, or Jacques Cousteau exploring the…


Friends Carry Teammate With Disability in Adapted ‘Backpack’ on Adventures Around the World

Six firm friends chose not to let one group member’s impaired mobility subdue their thirst for adventure. The only thing that stood in their way was the wheelchair. So, they designed a backpack instead. “Whether you’re winning or losing, your battle is not your identity,” 35-year-old Kevan Chandler, who lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with…


Where the Wild Things Are: Literature, Boys, and Manhood

Mark Twain ends the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” with these words: “And so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble that was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and ain’t agoing to no more. But I reckon…


Fun in the Water and on Land at Great Wolf Lodge

“You want me to get on that and go down to where?” I wailed from high atop the Alberta Falls waterslide, looking down to an alleged pool that was well out of visual range. My 11-year-old granddaughter nodded with a look of both consternation and resignation that I tried very hard to take in stride….


How a Perilous Sahara Journey Ended in Faith, Strength, and Courage

British model Kristina Hurrell dunked her head in the pool of water just steps ahead of her, frantically trying to shake out the countless insects that had dropped into her hair when she took a garden shortcut. Only upon lifting her head, did she see the nearby Brigitte Bardot, nakedly emerging from a swim. It…