Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Favorite quotations, etc.
Post Reply
7Wannabe5
Posts: 9370
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:03 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by 7Wannabe5 »

The adventure of climbing up the Wheaton scale:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVAwHGiUGZ8

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

Paul's Boots (Appalachian Trail)
http://dirtbagdiaries.com/pauls-boots/

Kriegsspiel
Posts: 952
Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:05 pm

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Kriegsspiel »

7Wannabe5 wrote:The adventure of climbing up the Wheaton scale:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVAwHGiUGZ8
That was neat. I got sucked into watching a bunch of his videos (Ben Falk), now I'm gonna go to the library to get his book. I liked his stuff about rice farming up in Vermont, I thought rice was a warm weather crop, but it doesn't seem so at all.

7Wannabe5
Posts: 9370
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:03 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by 7Wannabe5 »

@Kriegsspiel:

What I liked about that video was his explanation of how his practice informed his perspective which informed his practice ...

I think that is indicative of the "tinkering" mode of approaching any sort of complex practice such as permaculture or frugality or Renaissance lifestyle creation. OTOH, Falk's practice is a little too much in the mode of "5 Acres and Independence" for my liking. Anybody should be able to live permaculture right now from right where they are. You don't have to save up money and buy X acres first. I have to keep reminding myself of this because I live about a mile away from the lots that I own, so my Zones 0 and 1 are rented.

George the original one
Posts: 5404
Joined: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:28 am
Location: Wettest corner of Orygun

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by George the original one »



Toska2
Posts: 420
Joined: Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:51 pm

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Toska2 »

Another former IT worker on a bike. Nothing like jumping in with both feet. http://mobile.tiredofit.ca

Spartan_Warrior
Posts: 1659
Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:24 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Spartan_Warrior »

Another bike adventure, another kind of romance:

India to Sweden with Love... on a Bike

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

A Taiwanese commercial. What do people live for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksdBSV ... e=youtu.be

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

The Art of Judgarh..... aka extreme Macgyvering

http://threeruleride.com/2015/07/the-ar ... -part-wtf/

I found the article in Bicycle Traveler Magazine (free pdf mag)
http://www.bicycletraveler.bicyclingaroundtheworld.nl/

enigmaT120
Posts: 1240
Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:14 pm
Location: Falls City, OR

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by enigmaT120 »

Ego wrote:The Art of Judgarh..... aka extreme Macgyvering

http://threeruleride.com/2015/07/the-ar ... -part-wtf/

I found the article in Bicycle Traveler Magazine (free pdf mag)
http://www.bicycletraveler.bicyclingaroundtheworld.nl/
I just finished reading that issue!

I loved the picture through the tent door in Kyrgistan. But I realized I could get similar pictures in NE Oregon.... Certainly in Wyoming.

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/0 ... line-paul/

Image

7Wannabe5
Posts: 9370
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:03 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by 7Wannabe5 »

lol- Funny because mostly true. Sometimes men have good ideas for adventures themselves, and they will frequently happily take you with them if you are okay with cuddling in the back of a jeep and you don't wander off too frequently and you don't usually cry when people yell at you, BUT they hardly ever even listen to your very, very, very good ideas for adventure, and if you let them come with you on one of your adventures, they either just complain and complain or they totally try to take over YOUR adventure and ruin it. AND if you try to go off on an adventure on your own or with your sisters, they will call you on the phone all the time because they want you to come home and cook them some dinner, and then if you don't come home from your adventure in time to make dinner, they will pretend like they didn't notice the crock pot wasn't working and try to feed your children raw chicken.

User avatar
jennypenny
Posts: 6851
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:20 pm

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by jennypenny »

When I looked without my glasses, I thought the right one said 'men' not 'meh' LOL.

7Wannabe5
Posts: 9370
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:03 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by 7Wannabe5 »

Yeah, that's obviously how I read it too. Funnier that way.

User avatar
jennypenny
Posts: 6851
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:20 pm

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by jennypenny »

Definitely funnier, and so typical of many women (or women of our age anyway).

7Wannabe5
Posts: 9370
Joined: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:03 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by 7Wannabe5 »

Yeah, might be limited to those of us born before 1977-ish. Does anybody even use the expression "tomboy" anymore? I was talking to my sister about how there are two kinds of tomboys, the real ones being the girls of our generation who grew up in a large family of all brothers, and the fake ones (like us) who grew up in a large family of all girls.

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

"You see, if you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do. That's the key to the whole thing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYqiLJBXbss

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

This is me living the dream, sitting in a Soviet bus stop to get out of the sun in the middle of nowhere in Kazakhstan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgze73f0yZ4

User avatar
Ego
Posts: 6359
Joined: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:42 am

Re: Life is a Daring Adventure | The Inspiration Thread

Post by Ego »

Hazel and Steve Findlay on bucket lists....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6QBVbyDWU

Post Reply