"That," Mr. Monasalidze said, "was the start of our adventure".
The nearest you can get to the start of your adventure using public transport is the Patterdale Hotel, around 5km from the start.
"THIS is all virgin trail," said Shad Baker, a connoisseur of hiking in the steeply slanted backwoods of eastern Kentucky, as he dropped me off at the start of my adventure there on the new Pine Mountain Trail.
Then I want entertainment, stories, some sort of cast-iron connection to the place, and the feeling that a day spent together is not just some financial transaction, but the start of an adventure and, hopefully, a friendship.
"And now we smite them into tiny pieces of dust and destroy their goal with a ball set on fire by our volcanic thunder," it wrote at the start of the adventure.
"Welcome to where you're going," his minion told the group, knowing since the start of the adventure that they would eventually be caught right where the Saviors wanted them.
Indeed, almost half the island has been designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty, and with the sun glinting it feels distinctly like the start of an adventure when getting off the ferry at East Cowes, where our two-wheeled circuit starts.
We place the books in a machine that seems futuristic to us both, and through chips and technology, the machine knows the books we are taking out, the start of the robot adventure starts before we even open a robot adventure book.
A sort of adventure, maybe.
This could be the start of a great adventure.
Writing this pilot was thrilling, terrifying, the start of a true adventure.
