Through our years of road trips, our adventures have ranged from mild to wild, and everywhere in between. Each “one crazy adventure” blog post will focus on a specific experience that we all felt was “bucket list” worthy. These are the experiences that seem to get most people excited when we start talking. They are also, not surprisingly, the experiences most likely to generate a reaction of, “you’re crazy,” from the big chickens scaredy cats less adventurous crowd.
It’s often best to start at the beginning…
And, so, It only seemed appropriate to start with one of our first big adventures. After a couple months spent frequenting an indoor rock climbing gym, our kids (ages 10, 10, & 7, at the time), decided that the thing they really wanted to do that summer was to go climbing – but, like, for real. They wanted to trade in the plastic nubs of the rock gym for actual rocks. I couldn’t blame them. The exercise of the rock gym is awesome, but, it’s as artificial as everything that we’ve created in society. They wanted something real.
Country roads, take me home, to the place, where I belong…
A rock climbing adventure sounded like an excellent excuse for a family road trip, in my mind, and, New Jersey to West Virginia sounded like the perfect distance for a weekend trip! Enter: Adventures on the Gorge. A few hours worth of googling later minor internet search brought me to Adventures on the Gorge and after just as much time perusing their offerings I immediately knew which option would work best for us! The half-day climbing/rappelling trip.
Adventures on the Gorge is a top notch family wonderland.
Despite the fact that Adventures on the Gorge is a full service resort and adventure wonderland, we didn’t stay onsite. However, when we arrived for our trip, we sort of immediately wished that we had. The place has the impeccably well run, and well maintained, atmosphere of an outdoorsy Walt Disney World. It was next level. So was our experience. If you’ve done more than a few tours or trips of this nature, then you know that they typically fall into one of two categories: “Holy Smokes! this is a well-oiled machine,” being one, and “Oh my God we’re going to die out here on this [mountain, lake, ocean, etc] with this fool,” being the other. Fortunately, Adventures on the Gorge is of the “well oiled machine,” variety.
Also worth checking out…
While we haven’t yet stayed at Adventures on the Gorge, or gone white water rafting with them, we definitely plan to in the future. If you are interested in giving white water rafting a shot, without breaking the bank, they have a 2 hour rafting experience for $49. You are hard pressed to beat that! If you go before us, let us know how it was!
Family Road Trip 