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Heidi Dusek

Heidi Dusek is a former Foundation executive currently on a family gap year traveling around North America in her RV with her husband Brent and three kids. Brent is a former tech ed teacher who shifted to become a mobile RV technician. As an adventurous family each season is filled with outdoor activities including skiing, fishing, hiking, biking and whatever local adventures they might discover. They travel via National Parks, Major League Baseball stadiums and tasting the best small-batch homemade ice cream in each state. Our simple adventures and untourist approach are the foundations to an adventurous lifestyle with kids.

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10 Simple Ways to Infuse more Adventure into Your Life

Reader For those of you following along on our family gap year journey, we are at home in Wisconsin. We have been home a little over a week and plan to stay home through Thanksgiving for a series of family related events starting with my parents 50th anniversary party this weekend. Being in one place for 7 days is interesting for us, given that for the past 10 months we've been staying in places 3-5 nights on average. Being home reminds me of the season that many families are in..the fall...

Reader We describe ourselves as an untourist adventure family 5. We regularly look for hidden gems and ways to experience and support the local favorites. Here are 4 from the past few months that ranks high and were under $100 for all 5 of us. Listed is the total cost for all 5 of us. 1. Sand boarding at Sand master Park near Florence Oregon. We had a full day rental of 3 sand boards, 1 sand sled (my husband and I shared) Sandmaster Park. We had been here in 2020 and after traveling to sand...

Reader Alaska is good. My husband flew home for a week to take care of a family medical issues which forced us to REALLY slow down and just live an adventurous life in a different place. The kids are loving it. Our adventurously simple life if in full bloom. We parked for 2 weeks in Talkeetna, Alaska a small town on the way to Denali National Park. I have been here a number of times over the past couple decades because we have family living here. This year has been an experience unlike any I...

Hey Reader Today was a big and yet very ordinary day. I woke up in my own bed at home this morning as we are home for a week between phase 2 and phase 3 of our gap year. It's also the 1 year birthday of my book Beyond Normal: a field guide to embrace adventure explore the wilderness and design an extraordinary life. I am also celebrating crossing the 100,000 downloads milestone on the Ordinary Sherpa podcast. Is this success? I'll be talking more about this on the podcast 116 | Summit vs....