Sunday, November 13, 2011

Add Some Spice To Your Next Vacation

12:35 PM
By Jack Sloane


Are you tired of having to spend every facation visiting your family? Are you tired of sitting on a couch and watching television with your parents because doing something else during your vacation time would make you feel guilty? It can be hard to get over those guilty feelings. All the same, don't you sometimes want to take a vacation you can have fun on?

When you have a small amount of time off, why not check into some of the adventure travels available near your home. Even if you don't go outside your home state there are tons of adventures to be had. If you have money burning a hole in your pocket, why not experience a true adventure? Here are some adventure travels that are well-known favorites.

If you enjoy being outside and using your survival skills to live off the land, why not try an Australian Walkabout? These have become trendy especially after one of the main actors on the TV show Lost made an attempt to go on one. The original thought for an Australian Walkabout was for you and your fellow adventurers to get out into the Australian Outback on a guided tour.

When you get out on a walkabout, you are only living off the land. You gather your own food, construct your own shelter from the available materials and take on any "elements" that might come your way (weather, wild animals, etc). It would be like extreme camping and can bring great satisfaction. Do you enjoy hunting, but have gotten tired of the available game in your home region? Why not take a trip for a hunting travel tour?

Most continents have a specialty tours and outfits that will explain how to hunt the game in their neck of the woods. Do you have a dream of hunting big (non-endangered) game in Africa? You can accomplish it. Do you desire to get out into the wild west of America and hunt their big game? You can even do that. The most important thing to decide for a hunting adventure is selecting what type of game you want to hunt. From there it is all simply a matter of logistics like: "how am I going to get my hunting equipment there or are they going to provide it?"

Do you daydream about spending a few weeks on a motorcycle adventure? Sure you could get a membership with a local motorcycle club, but where's the joy in that? For avid adventure travelers, they would get merriment from taking a motorcycle trip somewhere much farther away from their homes.

Try out a Llama Trek! Anybody can do some horseback riding. Hurricane Creek Llama Treks in Oregon are a great way to have some wacky adventure travels without having to leave the country. When you take one of these treks you will camp out--you're responsible for bringing your own gear (as well as setting it up and taking it down) as well as for packing and unpacking your llama bags. These are great trips because you can either ride your own llama in the Oregon wilderness or you can walk the trails and lead your llama behind you. How many other times in your life will you be able to ride llamas?

Adventure travels don't have to be super expensive (though they can run a little high sometimes). These vacations do not have to take a lot of time. Some only last a single day! Why not choose to have fun and an adventure once in a while--there's no rule that says you have to spend every vacation feeling bored. Thanks to the sheer variety of adventure travels available, your hardest decision will be deciding up on a location and an activity. Have some fun!




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