San Francisco!

An adventure is any activity that is out of the ordinary and usually involves risk. Everyone has a different definition of adventure because what is ordinary to one person may be extraordinary to other people. Adrenaline junkies will only accept extreme activities (skydiving, rock climbing, etc.) as adventures because they define adventure as activities which result in an adrenaline rush. Travelers define adventures as the sightseeing and vacationing they do in foreign countries.

                One recent adventure I had was traveling to San Francisco this past summer for work and pleasure. My uncle invited me to San Francisco to work and manage his business, which was awesome because I only brought $300 with me to San Francisco after buying the plane tickets. I worked as a janitor, which I consider to not be adventurous. The fun part was working the night shift, and getting to see the nightlife all over the bay area. The strangest people come out at night, I even saw a man get arrested for soliciting a prostitute.

I got to see the Pacific Ocean, and it was nothing like the movies. I went to the beach and it was cold and very windy, and I didn’t see any surfers. I’ve always wondered why people pay so much to love in the bay area, and I realized it’s because of the climate. Nights are cool and days are sunny but not hot. Makes me want to live there after college.

The flight to San Francisco was an adventure itself. I’ve never been on an airplane in my life. I wasn’t scared, but there were a lot of things I didn’t know about air travel. I watch the news regularly, so I expected a long security checkpoint and TSA agents patting everyone down. Everything was much quicker and simpler than I expected, until we were in the air and I experienced turbulence for the first time (pretty scary).

Travelers would not consider the trip and adventure, because they are always traveling and can afford to enjoy their trip without working. Businessmen and other people that travel as part of their work consider flights to be boring and ordinary. Most adults have had to live on their own, so they would consider it as a normal experience.