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Subject:Re: 31K for a vanagon? You must be mad -- or not.
From:John Bange
Date:Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:33:58 -0700

>
> If adventure is what you want, I can show it to you and you won't need a
> bloated Westy with a WIFI for it. But, you gotta learn to spell it
> correctly:
> R-I-S-K.

Ugh. I think you have a point that RISK=ADVENTURE, but keep in mind that
it's entirely relative and varies greatly from person to person. Going 100
meters down the beach and enjoying a cup of coffee might be enough for some
people. Others may need to free climb Half Dome. I recall the greatest
"adventure" I ever endured was a two day Hummer drive through the desert
with a knot in my stomach from worrying about driving over a mine. The guy
sitting next to me did nothing but complain about how boring it was. That
bored PFC who was sitting next to me is now probably a master sergeant
driving through pretty much the same desert, in the same conditions, still
bored. My adventure/risk threshold tends to be fairly low now. I only need
to get a half dozen miles down a NFS fire road to get my fill. I can (and
have) done that in a 94 Honda Civic. It's all relative.