I couldn't believe my little world of adventure would be compelling enough for a club full of scuba divers, anthropologists, island hoppers, and treasure hunters.
But this week, I had the honor of guesting on a livestream presentation hosted by the Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles. (Scroll to the bottom to watch the replay.)
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I'd first visited the clubhouse in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles back in 2017, when the club's management was interested in working with Atlas Obscura (for which I was a field agent at the time).
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I marveled at its collection of artifacts—some seemingly worthy of being catalogued at a natural history museum.
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And I wondered whether my domestic and international adventures might ever qualify me for membership to the nearly 100-year-old club, which was founded in 1922. (Right now, the main thing that disqualifies me is merely my gender, as it's still a "Gentlemen Adventurers' Club.")
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But that year, in 2017, I ended up finding another club I wanted to join—the Los Angeles Breakfast Club. And while I've been a stalwart member of that fellowship for the last four years, I've been happy to return to the LA Adventurers' Club for the occasional tiki night.
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I'd been invited to join their crew in the clubhouse, but I chose to teleconference from the safety of my own apartment. As honored as I was, I'm just not taking any of those types of chances right now, with the pandemic still raging.
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It was fun to share some of my "crown jewel" stories—like of getting my car stuck in a rut just outside of Big Bear, getting kicked off the track at Irwindale Speedway, and more.
Watch the replay by clicking here or in the player above.
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