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Adventure is not outside man, but within, for you cannot cross the sea by simply staring at the water.

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Featured Post

My 7 Weeks of Adventures in Alaska

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Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.
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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.
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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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Chuck's Photo Blog

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NW Chicago 'burbs, United States
(with M&M) relaxing and reading between adventures
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You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:12 (New International Version)

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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Videos

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Photos

Photos exemplifying my love for the outdoors and some of my adventures in pursuit of that passion:

Mountain biking in Florida's Ocala National Forest

Climbing wall

Zipline jungle canopy tour in Jamaica

Rafting Wyoming's Snake River

Des Plaines River Canoe Marathon

Climbing Window Arch in Canyon de Chelly

Atop Great Sand Dunes NP

Atop Uncompahgre Peak (14,309 feet)

Surfing at Waikiki

Rapelling in Arizona

Backpacking in Bob Marshall Wilderness

Arkansas mountain biking

Digging new trail tread for Kentucky's Pine Mountain Trail

Sea kayaking Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine

Nailing decking on SC's Palmetto Trail fifteen feet above the Wateree Swamp

Driving a 6 wheel drive ATV on trail project in Michigan's Hiawatha NF

Riding in Arkansas

Rafting Wesser Falls on North Carolina's Nantahala River

Snorkeling the green slime of Florida's Orange Grove Sink spring

Digging new trail tread for Tennessee's Cumberland Trail during hunting season (orange outfit)

Mountain biking in Arkansas

Driving the houseboat on Lake Powell

Canoeing 125 miles down Utah's Green River

Rafting Bull Sluice on the Chattooga River

Kayaking 145 miles of the Mississippi River

Horseback riding in Mexico's Copper Canyon

Volunteer trail project in Arizona's high desert

Biking in one of Chicagoland's many forest preserves

Backpacking a North Carolina segment of the AT

4-wheelin' Colorado's high country with the Xterra Owners Club

Exploring slot canyon in Glen Canyon/Lake Powell

Village SIngers of Lake Zurich performance -- only time I've played banjo in a tux!

Hiking glacier in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Backpacking Alaska's Denali State Park

Trail bridge we built in Utah's Manti-LaSal National Forest

Section of stairs we built for Cape Cod National Seashore

Kayaking Labyrinth Canyon in Lake Powell

On a volunteer trail project in Kentucky, I took a tree down, and on its way down, it took me down and sent me the the ER. What an adventure that was!

Bridge we built for South Carolina's Palmetto Trail
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