101 Simple Adventures You Can Do Everyday: For The Rest Of Us
Adventure isn’t just for thrill seekers who risk life and limb climbing Mount Everest, pilot their own single engine plane or travel around the world with a backpack and a urine filtration kit. (ewwww).
But adventure is paramount to your happiness. Without it life gets boring, mundane and routine.
So how does the average person sneak a little adventure into their lives?
First: DON’T limit yourself to just those death defying adventures.
Its just not realistic.
Adventure can be had everyday by just breaking from your normal routine or trying something new.
- Maybe Evil Knievel doesn’t think riding his bike 20 miles to work is adventurous.
- Maybe Martha Stewart doesn’t think planting her own herb garden is adventurous either.
But you might!
Let’s get adventures!
So here is a list of 101 adventurous activities for the rest of us mere mortals who don’t plan on doing anything death defying anytime soon but need a little adventure in our life to spice things up a bit.
THE LIST: 101 ADVENTUROUS ACTIVITIES FOR NORMAL PEOPLE
- Paint the walls a different color
- Redecorate one room with a theme (Zen, cowboy, French chic, boudoir etc.)
- Make an entertaining answering machine message
- Eat diner outside
- Make homemade ice cream or sorbet (MMMM)
- Make an ethnic meal you’ve never made before ( spicy?)
- Eat pancakes for diner and pizza for breakfast
- Bake: Make croissants, cakes or cookies ( lots of butter)
- Make home made pasta (so hard, start early)
- Get a passport
- Learn to program
- Learn HTML
- Build something
- Go a week without a cell phone or internet
- Learn to weld and make something useful
- Learn to play an instrument
- Learn to take beautiful pictures
- Learn to sew your own clothes
- learn to crochet or knit something useful
- Learn to play chess
- Learn to play mahjong
- Learn to play bridge
- Passionately kiss in the rain
- Kiss under a mistletoe
- Snuggle in a hammock
- Kiss on a Ferris wheel or merry go round
- Write a love letter to someone you love
- Carve your names in a tree
- Learn and find constellations like the big dipper
- Watch a meteor shower
- Take up kick boxing or karate
- Learn tai chi
- Do 50 pushups
- Learn to meditate
- Take up jogging
- Do the splits
- Try belly dancing
- Go to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls
- Stretch and touch your toes ( You know you can’t)
- Become a certified yoga instructor
- Become a certified ski instructor
- Become an author: Start writing a book
- Become an internet entrepreneur
- Become a professional photographer
- Ride your bike to work
- Spend the night in a haunted house
- Watch airplanes take off and land up close
- Learn another language
- Read the entire Bible or Koran
- Learn to write with your other hand
- Visit a hookah lounge
- meditate in a temple
- solve a Rubik’s cube
- Get a tattoo
- Walk through a graveyard at night
- Join a book club
- Crank up the music and dance like no one is watching
- Read a book ( Novel idea right?)
- Make your own beer (easier than you think)
- Capture lightening in photograph
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- Become a history buff of anything
- Become a connoisseur of wine
- Learn another language
- Learn to sign
- Get a second degree by going to night college or earn it online
- Pay for someone else’s food
- Donate bone marrow
- Rescue a dog or cat from an animal shelter
- Donate blood
- Volunteer
- Go to the circus: see the cirque du soleil
- Go to a concert
- Go to the opera
- See a musical
- Watch a play
- Watch a movie in another language you are learning
- go to drive-in theatre
- Go to a jazz bar
- Go to a karaoke bar and sing or do it at home
- Go to a museum
- Turn on the t.v. and turn off the volume. Make up funny dialogue with friends and family.
- Have a video game competition
- learn to identify all the birds in your backyard
- Plant a tree
- Make an herb garden
- Grow your own tomatoes or veggies
- Make a terrarium
- Watch the stars
- Go skinny dipping
- Go camping in your backyard
- Go on a midnight bike ride with flashlights friends or family
- Climb a tree
- Dance in the rain
- Go geo-caching with kids or friends. (need GPS enabled phone or device)
- Find Nemo
- Take a train somewhere, anywhere
- Make Sushi
- Learn to read brail
- Take a hike
- Fly a kite
- START A BLOG about something you are passionate about !
Remember that adventure is what you make of it and can be found everywhere. Do something adventurous everyday to get the most out of your life. What are some of the adventurous things you like to do? Share them in the comments below.
This is an awesome list. I also keep one of these on my computer ( I use a lot of them as date ideas).
And also agree with your stating that don’t limit your adventures to the death defying ones! You need fun stuff to do daily that can save you.. The micro adventure a la Alastair Humphrey.
Alex
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How about teach a subject you have no clue on? That’s adventurous! It challenges you to think differently and I think friends will get a kick out of watching you struggle. That would be a great theater sports game.
Elmer, what a clever idea. Are you volunteering ? I would love to see my husband or any man teach ladies how to apply apply makeup.
Great list Annie! I’m going to print it out. Better yet, you should make it into a poster
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I like that idea. Brilliant.
Ah yes, now I understand why you live in the south of France… all the skinnydipping!!
Not yet but it could be in my near future when the weather warms up. But that’s nothing compared to your escapades in a hammock.
Hi Annie,
I am new here and am thrilled by your site. I saw the interesting story you and family had. Will be jumping over to your story immediately after this to find out more.
Love these list of adventures for common folks like us. I am particular excited about your learn to, become a, and go to series of ideas.
In our first house, my wife and I painted our walls Audrey Hepburn theme. Loved it. Our daughter loves dolphin and we will be painting this theme when our new house come along.
Thank you for making life so exciting with such simple adventures in life.
Cheers
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Hello there Jimmy,
I am intrigued by the Audrey Hepburn walls you speak about. I love Audrey Hepburn and William Holden too.
Do you have photos?
Tammy,
It’s so exhilerating to do new things isn’t it. i did the same thing five years ago and started kick boxing with other people who were obviously doing it for years. I was so scared but at the end of the day i was thrilled. it gave me the courage to go out and do more things that made me fearful.
I love this list! Thank you so much for sharing! I used to be terrified of trying new things because I thought people would think less of me for not being good at something, even on the first try. I am SOOOOOO over that!
One of the ways I became more adventurous in spirit is by doing things like on this list. I would do an activity a month that was outside my comfort zone: take a class because it was offered at a good time, regardless of the subject manner; accept every invitation (if available) to try different experiences; go to an Asian market and buy one thing I couldn’t identify and try it.
This has become a part of me. Last month I joined a book group full of strangers, and this past Friday I took a boxing class for the first time, surrounded by people who obviously did this on a regular basis.
I figure this will attitude will result in a multitude of stories to share at the senior center when I get older.
Thanks again for the list. I must try a few!
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