Adventure is leaving your home and family to walk in the woods for six months. Adventure is everything you need in a pack on your back. Adventure is two thousand miles. Adventure is one step at a time. Adventure is those darned stairs. Adventure is a gushing waterfall. Adventure is a dry stream. Adventure is a hiking partner. Adventure is a visitor. Adventure is a special guest. Adventure is yet another uphill. Adventure is yet another downhill. Adventure is a merciful stretch of flat ground. Adventure is rocks. Adventure is adjusting your trekking poles and load lifters. Adventure is filtering water. Adventure is setting up your tent in the rain. Adventure is a spectacular vista. Adventure is a viewless summit. Adventure is being socked in. Adventure is dirty socks. Adventure is semantic satiation. Adventure is a zero day. Adventure is a blissful shower. Adventure is small luxuries. Adventure is a white blaze. Adventure is a blue blaze. Adventure is being asked if you “green blaze.” Adventure is saying no. Adventure is saying yes to things. Adventure is a stranger’s wedding. Adventure is meeting someone new every day. Adventure is running into old friends. Adventure is when the “tr” in “tramily” stands for “transient.” Adventure is being alone. Adventure is pain. Adventure is scrapes, bruises, blisters, and aches. Adventure is multiple pairs of shoes. Adventure is getting bad news. Adventure is being pulled off trail. Adventure is a unique beauty every day. Adventure is healing. Adventure is spiritual reverence for nature. Adventure is torrential rain. Adventure is a dark tunnel of rhododendrons. Adventure is “rhodos” for short. Adventure is seeing a bear. Adventure is an annoying whippoorwill. Adventure is seeing birds soar below you. Adventure is a frigid night. Adventure is sleeping with your filter. Adventure is a sweltering day. Adventure is a cool breeze. Adventure is peeing with near John-Mulaney-joke frequency. Adventure is digging a cathole. Adventure is KT tape. Adventure is ibuprofen. Adventure is wild ponies. Adventure is wildlife. Adventure is wildflowers. Adventure is wild. Adventure is hiker hunger. Adventure is following the hobbit meal schedule. Adventure is a half gallon of ice cream. Adventure is indulging yourself in the aisle of sin. Adventure is a distant peak. Adventure is an exposed ridgeline. Adventure is an expansive valley. Adventure is farmland. Adventure is pastures. Adventure is puking in the Fontana Hilton bathroom. Adventure is learning. Adventure is climbing a rickety fire tower. Adventure is sleeping atop a sturdy fire tower. Adventure is a sunset. Adventure is a sunrise. Adventure is those you leave behind. Adventure is an audiobook. Adventure is singing to yourself. Adventure is fording a creek. Adventure is a dangerous road crossing. Adventure is car-centric crap. Adventure is hanging a bear bag. Adventure is a blessed bear box. Adventure is sleeping in a shelter. Adventure is a hostel stay. Adventure is a shitty motel. Adventure is hitchhiking. Adventure is trees creaking in the wind. Adventure is the crackle of power lines. Adventure is a summer thunderstorm. Adventure is checking for ticks. Adventure is a coniferous forest. Adventure is a bed of pine needles. Adventure is getting trapped in a privy. Adventure is stinky. Adventure is the fragrance of the forest. Adventure is a lunch log. Adventure is a shelter log. Adventure is “oola.” Adventure is waking up with the sun. Adventure is birds chirping. Adventure is trail spice. Adventure is peanut butter and Oreos. Adventure is shaggy hair and a shaggy beard. Adventure is a Shaggy outfit. Adventure is trail names. Adventure is trail magic. Adventure is trail friends. Adventure is trail legs. Adventure is feeling stronger every day. Adventure is mindfulness. Adventure is calling. Adventure is waiting for you. Adventure is the real world. Adventure is when your tent feels like home. Adventure is wabi-sabi. Adventure is all this and more. Adventure is a dream come true. Adventure is the AT. Adventure is Out There!