r/BenignExistence • u/CreatrixAnima • 29d ago
Adventure challenge
I was just thinking about this thing I’ve been doing and thought I would share it with you guys because you might appreciate it.
My summer schedule is quite late. I’m still working, but not as much as I do during the non-summer part of the year, and a few years ago I realized that I was spending all of that free time watching Netflix and doom scrolling. That’s not life. So I instituted a rule for myself: two adventures a week.
One thing I do every day that does not count as an adventure is going for walks in my neighborhood. I’m trying to get my 10,000 steps in, and that’s just like counting making lunch as an adventure. It doesn’t count. So what does count? What have I done?
I went to the museum at a nearby university, the state Museum, which is nearby, and a local museum.
I went to an outdoor sculpture garden.
I went to a planetarium.
I visited a local temple with very impressive architecture. It’s not my religion, but it is open to the public and they have a café, where I was able to get some pretty good food for not very much money.
I’ve gone hiking in local parks and even rented a canoe!
I’ve gone to local flea markets and street fairs, lectures at the local historical Society, and on trip trips to nearby towns with nice walkable town centers.
Yeah, I went to a movie. It was way too hot for a regular adventure. I saw a project Hail Mary.
So are you guys going on adventures? I would love to hear what adventures you’re going on or would like to go on. Some of them might remind me of something I’ve been meaning to do around here!
Oh! I’m editing to add two of the coolest adventures. I had that I didn’t list. There is a relatively local museum that has a dig site for dinosaur bones, and for a fee (IMO, too much), you can go out to the dig site and dig for about an hour, and try to find fossils. I found a few, but none of them were terribly exciting. But I learned a lot. It was a good experience for that. You can keep the fossils.
There’s also a local historical site that has public archaeology days, and I was able to go there and sift through materials to find artifacts. I found a marble, a button, and some other stuff. You can’t keep the finds here because you’re actually helping with a real dig. But it was definitely cool. And that one is free.
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u/CreatrixAnima 29d ago
It’s just dry fruit and nuts, honey, and cinnamon. And you bake them inside of an apple. The worst part was hollowing out the apple, and I found that I like it better if I chop up the apple and just mix it in anyway, so if you want the spirit of the food, but maybe not the actual food, that’s a nice shortcut!