be an adventurer

I signed on as NaNoWriMo ML for Pretoria in a spirit of adventure. I’m discovering new places and new people, and new ways to do things.

In the spirit of adventure, I have signed on to Twitter. See me at niel_malan

One of the simplest ways to be an adventurer is to take the road you don’t usually take. Tonight I once again discovered a new shortcut by cycling up the road I usually don’t take. The shortcut bypassed the scary-looking (but probably quite harmless) corner that I had kept me away from trying it.

I could also mention that this adventure was caused by a national adventure. My adventure and discovery came because I had a choice of detours. The detour is necessary because of the construction of the Gautrain, our country’s first rapid-transit rail system.

Believe it or not, but I’ve decided that my next adventure will be to take something I’ve bought back to the shop. The salesman said I could, so I’m going to try it.

Tomorrow morning I will be leaving on a train journey to Cape Town. Circumstances will be very different from the last time I did something similar, two decades ago.

I will deliberately not be taking my laptop with me, so I will possibly not be on 43 Things to report how it’s going. I wish all my subscribers a pleasant week. If I do get time and feel compelled, I may post to my travel blog.

There are times when it is perhaps better to not be an adventurer. When it’s a dark night and its raining and one is tired it is probably better to take the well-known freeway rather than the narrow unknown road.

There was no disapproval voiced to my plans.

I want to go on an adventure, but I fear disapproval.

After more than eighteen months of membership, today at my gym I used the pool for the first time.

The intrepid adventurer participated in his very first triathlon today, and survived it!