Thursday, November 3, 2011

3 Ideas For Making Your Next Vacation a Real Adventure!

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?

Why not go off on a grand adventure the next time you get some vacation days? Heck, you might even be able to fit in weekend adventure treks and still have time to spend with your parents looking through the old photos (again). Here are some adventure travels you should try.

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.

You bring your own groceries and stay in their cabins and during the day trained professionals teach you the basics of dog sledding and take you on guided tours. Dude Ranches are good trips for the whole family. The Ponderosa Ranch in Nebraska gives you an opportunity for laborious work and an exciting ranch vacation. You can occupy the ranch's guest cabins. In the daytime, you get to be a real working ranch hand.

Guests get atop a horse and help round up cattle and drive them from one bit of ranch acreage to another. During the evening, there are campfire stories, down home cooking and other wonderful activities to participate in. During your down time you can do any number of things including hunting, fishing, hiking and horseback riding. This is a great vacation for families because people of all ages and skill levels are welcome.

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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