She wasn’t one of those women, or maybe she should just say she wasn’t one of those people, who went in search of the next thrill. The problem was that everybody else in her family was one of those people which made her the butt of all jokes at family functions. Well not this time. This time she was going to show them exactly how adventurous she could be. They could crawl on their belly through caves, tunnels, deserts and beyond. They could climb ice covered mountains, trek through the Amazon, and dive out of airplanes into a canopy of trees. They could do it all and now she was going to show them she could too. She had planned her great adventure and she was sure at the next family dinner she would be able to tell her story instead of becoming the story of the child who didn’t fit. They never let her forget she was nothing like what a Daniels should be, but this time she was going to show them she was just as good as they were. Okay, maybe it wasn’t a great adventure, but she was going hiking—a one day hike, but heck, that had to count for something.
