491- adventures...Adventures...ADVENTURES...A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E-S!.....

My little secret to developing and maintaining a balance and a bit of excitement in life? ADVENTURES!......
A) Hot-air ballooning....
B) White-water rafting....
C) Exploring on foot....
D) The WOODS....
E) Abandoned "ghost farmhouses"....
F) Lighthouses...check for open houses!....
G) "Gettin' Lost"...another term for explorin' historic sites....
H) "Gettin' Lost II"...taking a lesure drive out into the countryside, on 'blue highways' or even better, narrow country roads and lanes....
I) IMPORTANT NEED: in Virginia, stop at your local VDOT and ask for a FREE official VDOT Virginia Highway map!...comes in handy. While you're there, also ask for an official FREE Virginia county map. I personally visit the Williamsburg VDOT on Ironbound Road for free maps. Can ask there for a list and how to get any of the Va. county maps needed!
J) A bicycle!...get out and BIKE!...you'll like the wind blowing around and past you OFF the street and highways. Remember how "free" you felt as a youth ridint that bike? Be careful, though, of some auto drivers......
K) The Shenandoah Valley...use that VDOT Official Highway map! This researcher, native Virginian, explorer, photographer and adventurer often "disappears" and heads for THE Valley...have sooo many places explored and persons met!
L) Trout fishin' on a mountain stream!....
M) Ask a chum with a CONVERTIBLE to take a late afternoon ride with the top down through the countryside...stop beside a pond or small lake and listen to NATURE's sounds....
N) Invited, once, to go up in a small airplane for friend to practice takeoffs and landings...AT NIGHT! WOW!!
O) Signed up another time to ride along with a police officer (hometown). Saw the town from a completely different aspect! Officer's wife had prepared and sent a supper to dine on in the car. Shift was calm all evening UNTIL....30 minutes before shift was over (midnight), with all police cars being called to a large hotel. They all, preplanned, converged in lot at the front door, in a fan spread and waited, communcating back and forth in respective cars, with guns drawn. Were trying to calm the situation down by allowing "perp" to give up and walk out. EXCITING!
P) Go back to #47, please, for the very first blog on "ADVENTURES".......