by Katie Wright | Oct 30, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
“I think your animals might be coming down with a little cold.” I had run into an employee cleaning out a stall at the sprawling African Safari in Port Clinton, Ohio. He turned to me and laughed. “Well, the alpaca sneezed on me during the drive-through,” I smiled. It...
by Katie Wright | Oct 30, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
“There she is! I have to say, you took today like a champ.” Eric, the captain of the Pirate Clipper, and his first mate Jon, were sitting at the wide square bar at the Crow’s Nest when I walked in. Situated on a dock in Lakeside Marblehead directly on the water, the...
by Katie Wright | Oct 29, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
If you would have told me in the last few years that I would reconnect with my love of American Sign Language on a fishing boat in the middle of Lake Erie, I wouldn’t have believed you. It’s funny how we all have old skills that lie dormant, sometimes for years. But...
by Katie Wright | Oct 29, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
I’d been sitting on my couch when the idea of a road trip to the Great Lakes came to mind. In the last few days of October, with several adventures left to go and not a lot of money to spend on them, I decided I needed to find a place with a lot of bang for my buck....
by Katie Wright | Oct 26, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
“OK get that elbow up. Pull back!” I was standing at the ODNR public crossbow range in Xenia, aiming an arrow at the center of a target. I closed my left eye, pulled the string across the lower part of my face and then let it fly. To my utter shock, it was a bull’s...
by Katie Wright | Oct 25, 2018 | 31 Adventures, Adventurous Life
Oh Heavens. No. I had neared the landing of a seemingly endless zipline across the treetops of the Little Miami River Gorge. The trees were glowing brilliantly against a deep blue sky, but I was having a hard time enjoying the view. My heart was pounding and all I...
