This is an amazing adventure, one that you will always remember! The whole point of living life is to take on an adventure from time to time. Looks like you are getting your share of scenery and excitement! Adventures like this give life a more intense meaning. This is a geat story, keep us informed! I wish I could be there with y'all, even, following along in my own truck.
Adventure
Ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall." See Advene.]
1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. --Milton. 2.
(Milton is saying here to leave the wife at home!)
Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. --Berners.
3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. --Macaulay.
4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. --Bacon.
If by some chance I should perish in adventure,
No matter how uncertain or ill-advised,
Then all will know I'd to boredom no indenture.
And that I was a magnitude more alive,
Than those who sit on couches in their parlors,
Ever fearful for excitement more to strive. -- Opcom
The Young would heartily engage adventure,
but they have not the means to engage it as their own master.
The Old can well afford to take adventure by the horns,
but they can ill afford the perils provided by its earnest pursuit. -- Opcom