Adventure, if you get down to it, is about choice. And it’s not the choice between flinging yourself off a radio tower or running your usual four-mile loop. It’s not Botswana versus Boston, or heli-skiing versus HBO. No, it’s a choice to approach the morning, the long days of summer — the world, in all its relativity — with bold, open eyes. It can mean taking risks or trying something for the first time or pushing your body until it screams.

Your choice, really, is this: Do you want to live a more interesting life? Do you want to nibble at the edges of your comfort zone — or leap to a whole new zone entirely?

It’s the uncertainty of adventure, and the adventure of uncertainty, that we’re getting at here — the unknown, the untried, the weird, the different. As an adventurer, your mission is to find new ways to define your quest. What better time than now, with the summer stretching ahead of you? In the end, true adventure leaves us with great stories to tell. What is yours going to be?