Light ‘adventure’

The use of the term “adventure travel” in the L.A. Times Travel section cruise column of April 5 is the broadest I have ever encountered [“The Big Business of Adventure” by Rosemary McClure]. In my opinion, a couple of shore excursions to walk a trail or swim with sharks or fly over a glacier does not constitute adventure travel.

Taking an expedition ship to Antarctica, the Arctic, remote Alaska (not the overrun tourist towns of southeast Alaska in summer), the Galápagos or the Gulf of California qualifies, but it is not just the destination that warrants the label of adventure travel any more than riding the jungle ride at Disneyland qualifies. BOB CALLAHAN Newport Beach