Are you adventurous?

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In a polar opposite to my other thread i thought to ask to those. Who is adventurous or open to it? Who is stuck in routines n such?

More importantly whats your definition of adventure. Is it baby steps or big stuff.

Simple as a new route to work, a new resturant here and there, a new hang out place.
To as big as
Base jumping, the amazing race, new styles of food every day

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Not the stuff you wanna do

So in recent times im challenging my aspie friends [ones i know in person] to get out and do stuff. Of 5 there all open to eating new things of diff nations. Of 5 i got 2 to dress a lil better on there days off. All 5 love new activities. Heck i got em to do both bar hopping and on another week wine tasting. We did choclate tasting. Take it easy though, there new at this. We are barely leaving the county line on trips. Unfortunately not by far lol.

Im yelling "Road trip! Road trip! Road trip!"

Only downside im voted leader of the group as i have all the ideas. Someone please de thrown me.
(T.T)

I'm mostly the routine-loving type, but I'm open to trying new things. Especially new beers.

In a way I am. I love exploring the woods and such. I'm always looking for new places and trails.

My first thought was absolutely not, but then I thought about stuff I've done. I used to go diving, I used to be a martial artist and I've spent years in various bands playing sax and bass. Used to travel all over the country playing gigs and nearly gave up the day job. I'm tempted to join another band but I go on too many holidays now. I still think of myself as addicted to routine, though.

I'm not adventurous in the sense of liking zip-lining and rock-climbing and things like that. I'm scared of a lot of things. But I like trying new things and having new experiences, as long as they're not scary.

I think that strutting a down sidewalk in British Columbia, wearing a German flag and helmet is pretty adventurous. British Columbia is drunk on British culture.

No, I'm not adventurous. Nor am I overly open to it.

I would never do something that involved danger or very physical stuff like base jumping, the amazing race, zip-lining and rock-climbing, camping, paragliding, bungee jumping etc
I have never been drawn to risk taking behavior, extreme sports or even just sports at all.

Trying new restaurants? I hardly ever eat out, and never at restaurants. They're very expensive and I prefer eating at home anyway. I only eat out if I'm a long ways from home, and then usually at a kebab place or something like that.

New route to work? I'm unemployed. But when I went to school I always took the same route unless I had a reason not to (like stopping by a store on my way home). The route would even be the shortest, nicest (less people) or easiest. Why would I want to mess with that? I just wanna get home ASAP.

New styles of food every day? Not even! I am open to trying new foods (within limits, I would never for instance eat dog or turtle), but every day or very often would just be a real chore. I want my life easy and simple. I'm eager to ty new meals though, and particularly new takes on things I like, like new pizzas, new (to me) or just variants of Indian food, Tex-Mex, pasta etc

Hang out places? I'm not a teen. Nor can I for the life of me understand the point in going somewhere just to hang.

I'm open to trying new things. Especially new beers.

the amazing geek

the only jobs i have had were minimum wage. and got fired. in certain locations, there are only so many routes. b/c of the public transportation. right now, unemployed. and have been for a long time. almost never drive a car. once every couple months.

restaurants, i do not go to that much. almost never. at least, alone. Whole Foods and the college student food coop. sometimes trader joe's or Lucky's supermarket or something like that. ain't got no precious lil "friends" to go to restaurants with. thankfully my "family" no longer drags me to restaurants, on account of being dead. furthermore i am trying to eat less fat/sugar/MSG/salt and there are a lot more foods that i completely avoid, than the number that i eat. and the former list is rapidly growing much longer.

hang out. usually just "hang out" at the shopping center or at the local university. that way i can lie down inside a building. without being a customer or employee. and still not get bothered by security or anyone else. so afraid of social rejection. nowadays. but whatever. the best case scenario is whooptie do and the worst case scenario is subject to imagination. there are a couple of locations i "hang out" on, but it is pretty much on a certain specific sidewalk.

no $$ and that eliminates a lot of activities.

Base jumping sounds expensive. kind of afraid of danger/risk/injury/disease. but also kind of apathetic. like a thrill for a couple seconds. and waste a lot of $$. and then what? do not pass "go". do not collect $200

the amazing race. lazy. socially awkward.

but then again i am 35 years old and that is pretty old.

age 18 to 22 in undergrad, rode a bike to over 200 cities in San Diego County. rode a bike from past UCSD to Perris, Riverside.

but that was then and this is now.

right now i am too cowardly, cheap, apathetic, lazy, physically weak, mentally slow to do that. and do not get the point either.

nothing appears to be worth the effort it takes to undergo

cost benefit analysis

I would prefer a nomadic lifestyle and own nothing. If only it was socially accepted and I had a means of surviving.

Ya, sure. New foods, places, people.

This June will be the 5th time I'll do the Tough Mudder in the Whistler Olympic Park in Callaghan Valley. I kiteboard on the ocean in Squamish. I've been snowkiting on a frozen lake in Montana - it reached record lows of -40 overnight. I went on 40km day hikes every Saturday one August - up the Grouse Grind, yoga class at the top, hiked to the peak for a picnic lunch, hiked back down a different trail each time. I've worked on swing stages 11 storeys up. I swam over 2km once. I've ridden my mountain bike on some pretty bumpy downhill trails. I've driven a car at 180kmh. I've ridden in a car at 280kmh. I've partied for daaaays during party weekends over the past few years & music festivals. I've been snowmobiling on Blackcomb Mountain at night. I've been 4x4ing with friends, and once was the driver for a couple friends who launched their hang gliders off a local mountain and I had to drive the 4x4 back down the right trail to go pick them up in a farmer's field when they landed. etc. When we had snow 30' deep one year I hucked myself off a ~30' drop of a little cliff on my powder board because there was (almost) no way to get hurt. I dove off the back of a boat that was slapping off the water at 65kmh. I've been white water river rafting on the Vedder River. ~My one time dirt biking I tried to keep up with my pro rider friend and really ripped through the dried out creek bed to keep up - later he told me he didn't expect me to even attempt to keep up with him lol.. oops, only did minor damage to his wife's bike's rear fender. I bartended at some pretty wild biker bar places. I've had some adventurous sex that I could have gotten caught doing lol. Last Summer one of the parties I went to (with 700+ people) was called "Spank 10, The Electrosexual Adventure" - that was wild. I'm sure there's a lot of things I've done that others would consider quite adventurous that aren't even coming to mind right now because it's just kinda been my norm.

Open to new things/adventures/challenges etc. I'm already signed up for some 5km obstacle course in October, just over 1/4 of a Tough Mudder distance and not nearly as difficult.. but it's close to home and will work up an appetite for a burger and beer. I'm sure there will be plllleeeennnttty more adventures in my life.

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Yes. If the mood's right. More so if I go solo. I prefer doing it alone than with anyone.

I don't like being stuck in the rut, and it's been my nature as long as I could remember. One of the reasons why I hate 'needs'...

At best/worst, however you looked at it, I've done some dangerous (Either potentially fatal/injurious or possibly illegal -- not yet both though.) activities.



My main problem? The expensive parts. Pay X to enter/try/view/etc. I'd just keep looking for the alternatives if only I have enough time...
Or get opportunistic.

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Much of the time my behaviour isn't adventurous or ambitious, it's pretty defensive and safe, but occasionally it's outrageously so. I noticed there was to be a solar eclipse that would be hard, but maybe possible, to get to. Looking it up on the Web, there were warnings that there could be dense crowds and appallingly thick traffic. I'm not particularly obsessed with astronomy. But I suddenly thought "stuff the consequences, let's go for it." There was no congestion problem but the eclipse was rubbish.

Until I was 62 it didn't look like I was ever going to go on holiday again, having long "grown out of" my childhood love of the same and become a stick-at-home. I'd never been on a plane, the very idea of such terrible discomfort and risk made me feel queasy. Then one day I packed a bag and went to the USA.

Once I packed in the job I'd done for 16 years, moved to another town (first time ever) and joined a radical community. Then after over 20 years in the next job, I saved up all the money I could and resigned, so I could enjoy my last few years of healthy life as a free man instead of waiting till I was pensionable and falling to bits physically.

It's not exactly robbing banks, but it's there. I think I just get sick of my risk-averse, safe, monotonous existence and I feel compelled to do something to liven things up a bit.

I like intellectual and creative adventures, I like adventurous travel, but I don't like things like white water rafting which nearly got me drowned when the raft capsized on a fifty feet waterfall and threw me into the churning water below it. For those who have never had this unpleasant experience, when you are deeply submerged in the churn, perceiving the direction of the surface can be difficult. Never did a breath of fresh air feel so good as the one I took once my head emerged above the torrent, before I struck out for the side of the river and was hauled out. The crew I went over with were lucky, all survived. The following day, another person capsized there and drowned; sometimes I think there must be angels sitting on my shoulders, I have had some very fortunate escapes from dangerous situations, though I am not into tempting fate and never was again after that experience.

I like new experiences if they are positive and life-affirming, but not ones that are dangerous and stupid.