One Big Adventure; One Little Adventure

Laura's latest book has just been released--Tranquility by Tuesday. Much of what she proposes is not relevant for me at this stage of my life in retirement. But her idea of one big adventure each week and one little adventure is something I need to adopt.

 

So yesterday we had our "one big adventure." We hoped to see more autumn color than we did along busy highways but we had a memorable time nevertheless. We drove about 75 miles to the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and enjoyed seeing the Wyeth art featured there. We walked a bit along the river. We left home around 1:15 and were back home around 7:15 having decided to make it a day trip and not an overnight outing. 

 Learning about the Wyeth family of three generations of artists was interesting. In fact, Jim splurged on a biography of Andrew Wyeth purchased in the museum shop so our visit will be extended as we read more about them. We were surprised to see several works featuring African-American models who lived in Chadds Ford. 

 We had an early supper of drinks and sandwiches at Chadds Ford Tavern on our way home. I was disappointed when the clerk at the museum acted as if there was no village of Chadds Ford to walk around. She may have been wrong because I think there is a historic district. Maybe we'll go back again and spend the night.

 In any case it was a great outing and because it was six hours or more it qualifies as one of Laura's "big adventures." Tomorrow we hope to celebrate Laura's book at her book launch party at her home--a possible "little adventure."