52 Adventures

The idea behind this blog is to learn to live a life of epic adventure on a small budget of time, money and energy.

My name is Athena, and I’ve always wanted to live an epic and adventurous life – but then life got in the way. Marriage came and went, and jobs come and jobs go. Friends come in and out of the circle of influence. Wake up, go to work, come home see friends/gym/movie, go to bed – rinse and repeat. Where did the last ten years go? The day in and out eventually became a routine.

There’s not a lot of adventure in routine.

Unless you make it a routine to have adventures. Little ones to start off with. Tiny adventures that can fit into a lunch break, or be squeezed into a weekend.

Not all adventures are backpacking trips through Europe or jumping out of airplanes. Not every adventure is classified by how far from home you are or how much money you spend.

There are adventures in my backyard, on my block, around my city – they are right under my nose!!!

I’m going to find them! Adventures, anywhere I can, as often as I can – until I teach myself this:

If I can learn to recognize the epic adventure in even the smallest, simplest events – then I can teach myself how to experience all facets of the stunning width and breadth of the adventures that are truly grand in scale.

I want to condition myself to be ready for spontaneity and improvisation.

I want to remember what it’s like to be utterly in awe of the moment.

I want to remember that childlike wonder of rushing off after the merest hint of something interesting and investigating it with the ferocity of innocent curiosity and ending up entirely altered by the experience.

But let’s work up to that, shall we.

Let’s start with some easy exercises first. A new restaurant? A new hobby? A day trip to the coast? A date?

Then work up to a road trip? A camping excursion? A rafting trip?

And if I get really good at it, maybe I can progress to full on run to the train station and get on the first train leaving? That trip to New Zealand?

Okay. Getting too excited. Gotta calm down and remember – start small.

Find the adventure once a week that fits my budget for money/time/energy and go from there.   

If you’re along for the ride – it should get interesting.

I have no idea where this is going to end up.