This could be fun. I’m perusing a large backlog of emails, a byproduct of being on the road for the past three weeks. There’s a line item in a message from the Los Padres Forest Association mentioning the Island View Trail. A click on a link brings me to the race webpage. The course for …
Author: Wayne Norman
Wayne Norman is an avid hiker, backpacker, traveler, and adventurer. He also has an affinity for classical music and opera. Follow his exploits at www.AdventuretoAdverture.com
Be Where You Are
Several years ago Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, gave a presentation at ‘The Do Lectures’. As part of the speaker series for that year, each presenter was asked to identify a ‘Big Do’ and a ‘little do’ as part of their talk. Rolf’s ‘Big Do’ …
The Least Interesting Man in the Room
“What do you listen to on your road trips?“ Good question. While the hard drive in my car has a wide variety of music stored on it, on most long drives I listen to podcasts. You can find a wide array of subject matter on iTunes, and I have gigabytes of audio downloaded on my …
Eclipsed
Anticipation mounts as the sky slowly darkens. A year and a half of planning and preparation have brought us to this moment. What will it be like? Will it be worth it? I've seen partial solar eclipses before, lunar eclipses also. To say I've been underwhelmed would be an understatement. Yes, it is interesting and …
Same place the bears go…
Darn these tight spaces. I’m trying to get the perfect picture with my cell phone camera, all the while knowing it’s not going to come out as nice as I want. Ah, the life of a photographer. At least no one is watching me. That would be truly embarrassing. Snap. The photo is as good …
Adventures and Good Music – Part Two
Add Breckenridge, Colorado to your list of places to visit. It's famous for its skiing, but it really sparkles in the summer. I spent a week here and could have easily stayed a month. Situated at 9600' at the base of the Tenmile Range, about twenty minutes south of Interstate 70, the old mining town …
Scratching the surface of adventure
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And you don't care. Because the best places to visit rarely fall on that path. Road trips can be awesome. You stare at a map and dream; and while you may need, or desire, to get to a specific destination, the route you take can …
Adventures and Good Music
When last we left our intrepid adventurer he was standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona looking a bit worse for wear. Much has happened since then. A trip to Petrified Forest National Park followed by a visit to Canyon de Chelly, then off to Santa Fe for a couple of nights at the opera, …
Storm Clouds on the Horizon
A storm was approaching. I could see lightning strike the earth far in distance and hear the faint roar of thunder. It was time to leave the ruins of the Lomaki Pueblo in Wupatki National Monument. The people who built this and so many of the other ancient ruins I had visited over …
Another Adventurer – Free ebooks!
This week is a different type of post. It’s about another adventurer and author, Bryan Snyder, who has used his ‘free’ time during the summer over the course of many years to explore the mountain west and beyond. Bryan wrote a summer column, “Off The Map”, for the Evening Sun newspaper in Chenango County, New …
Adventure-to-Adventure 