The Next Big Adventure

"slapped about the jowls with the gauntlet of adventuring chaos"

“Where,” you ask, “can a fairly sedate 50-year-old lawyer go to have an adventure for the ages? Something that none of his peers will ever try? Where can he go to dance on the edge of disaster? Maybe somewhere he can take his kids? Something that, if anyone survives, will provide stories for the rest of their lives?”

Boy am I glad you asked!

I grew up traveling the world, watching Dad solve travel puzzles—the planes have stopped flying; how do we get from Peshawar to Islamabad after dark?

When I had a family of my own, I enjoyed solving travel problems myself—our plane landed in Austin instead of Houston; what now? What’s the best route from Paris to Munich via the Black Forest?

I love to plan a trip. And I love to solve a travel puzzle on the fly.

I used to (before the internet) subscribe to airline schedules just so I could dream about routes from A to B. My favorite aspect of Sherlock Holmes is his encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules. I watched The Amazing Race a few times, and t…