I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.