The Importance of Epic Adventures
February 19th, 2010
“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
The Longest way is a video of the epic one year adventure of Christoph Rehage. Christoph did not shave or cut his hair during his adventure and managed to grow a beard as epic as the adventure itself. Here is the long red line showing the distance that Christoph traveled on foot.
I found a great quote from his travel blog:
It doesn’t matter what dream you choose to follow, as long as you have one. Go follow your dream, and laugh while you’re doing it!
I love how at the end of this video he asks “who was this person”…”was it really me?” The video seems to me to do a great job of showing how Christoph was able to grow from his adventurous experience.
Adventures help shape who we are. Our will power gains strength as we conquer the challenges we create. Adventures are expressions of freedom.
Here is a glance at the comment wall from Christoph’s Blog. This was the first time I had seen a commenting system like this. It resembles a cork board with a thousand post-its, one piled on after the other.
I want to have an epic adventure of my own. The most adventurous challenge of my life was when I decided to run 100 laps of my high school track for the terry fox run without training. It’s amazing what can be accomplished when you refuse to allow a single shred of doubt to enter your mind. This May I will be running my second marathon and I am looking forward to it, although my body is already wincing from the agony I will force it to endure.
While discussing my recent decision to take on the P90x challenge and do 90 straight days of exercise on my quest for ripped abs, the topic of mountain biking came up. I think if I were going to undertake an adventure such as Christoph’s I would like to do it on bike rather than on foot. It simply makes more sense to me to cover more country in less time.
Chris Sacca recently biked from coast to coast across America. I would love to take up the challenge of going coast to coast as well, only in Canada. Is there any better way to get to know this country I was born in? If I take on such an adventure I would love to do so for a great cause, and I would follow Sacca’s lead by raising awareness for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG foundation.
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Are you planning any adventures? What was the most epic adventure of your life?
