As adventures go, it wasn’t a particularly exciting, frightening or life-changing one. In fact, most people wouldn’t call it an adventure at all. I do because I define adventure as anything that requires me to do something risky or that interrupts my plans or even that I will at some point in the future have the opportunity to recount to some unsuspecting soul by uttering the words, “Oh, that reminds me of the day I ...” It happened like this: I’m leaving town for a couple of days, headed to Tallahassee to speak about and read from the book I wrote.