Adventure Magazine
Issue 230, February/March 2022
Issue 230, February/March 2022
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The first issue of 2022<br />
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2022 stretches out before us but it’s a road with a lot more turns and a few<br />
blind corners than we are used to. Life used to be so much more straight<br />
forward. You could plan to travel, to go to events and do activities but now<br />
there is a shadow cast by the last two years. It’s not a case of ‘no you can’t<br />
plan anything’, but we have all got used to the uncertainty that possibly Delta,<br />
Omicron or a zombie apocalypse will arrive and turn those plans upside down.<br />
But I do believe that there is value in the lack of certainty. Possibly, it makes us<br />
all a little more spontaneous. We are hesitant to book that ski trip to Canada in<br />
six months’ time, but we can make plans three weeks out to fly to Queenstown<br />
or visit the smaller club fields on a whim, our focus is more short term and with<br />
those short-term plans comes spontaneity.<br />
It is only our generation that got used to flying to Fiji fishing for the weekend<br />
or booking surf trips to Australia as a big swell approached. Now with those<br />
destinations that require more planning, that are more exposed and are at risk<br />
to the winds of change you can see people investing in that which they can<br />
control and that’s what’s local.<br />
Hopefully, 2022 will see the end of the covid reign and fingers crossed we can<br />
return to a more structured, planned way of life. But if not, if that specter still<br />
looms then we should count all our blessing and celebrate, in that we live is<br />
such an amazing country with so much to offer.<br />
Every issue of <strong>Adventure</strong> is full cover to cover with places to go, things to<br />
see and activities to do. Don’t hold your breath in 2022, waiting for Covid to<br />
vanish and our boarders to swing wide, because they might not. And if you are<br />
uncertain about planning then invest in spontaneity. Be ready to try that new<br />
activity, visits that new place or simply be prepared to enjoy something… just<br />
on a whim.<br />
Steve Dickinson - Editor<br />
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