About this Event
What's Your Next Adventure?
A Celebration of Journeys Great and Small!
Have you dreamed of an adventure maybe just outside your comfort zone but didn’t know how to begin? Do you enjoy learning how “normal” people do extraordinary things and what insights they learn on their journeys?
Come hear author, professor, and adventurer James Nehring explain how everyone, regardless of age or ability, can experience the thrills and personal empowerment of a challenge met. Learn how you can create and complete your dream adventure on your own terms!
Jim will share exciting tales from his adventures-- cross country cycling, coastal rowing, long distance trekking-- along with photos and dramatic excerpts from his new book, Everest and the Rest of Us: Four Journeys in Search of Adventure. This program is interactive, so come ready to share your adventure stories and/or dreams.
In James Nehring’s new book, an epic bike ride across the United States turns nearly to tragedy. A rowing journey along the East coast through storms and tidal surges forces a reckoning with life's priorities. A five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain triggers personal and spiritual renewal.
Everest and the Rest of Us delivers an exciting, three-part tale, by turns suspenseful and comic, painful and triumphant. The fourth journey examines why we pursue adventure—pushing limits, taking risks and facing danger, offering renewal by stepping outside our daily routines. Most of us will never climb Mt. Everest or surf a 50-foot monster wave, but everyone loves a good adventure.
Praise for Everest and the Rest of Us
“With its beautiful prose, Everest and the Rest of Us is a meditation on meaning, action, and discovering who we are through challenges and overcoming – no matter how large or small the scale.” --James Hibbard, Author of “The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning and a Life on Two Wheels”
“Absorbing and thought provoking, “Everest and the Rest of Us” takes us on a deep dive into the meaning of adventure. It affirms what I’ve always felt, that my own journey into motherhood was just as life changing/transforming as sailing around the world. --Tania Aebi, first American woman to sail solo around the world and New York Times best selling author with Bernadette Brennan of “Maiden Voyage.”
www.jamesnehring.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pacific Unitarian Church, Montemalaga Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA, United States
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