I'm quite confused by the original post, and also quite confused by many of the replies.

I've ridden my Canadian motorcycle through every Western, Central, & Eastern European country as well as all of North Africa from Morocco to Libya - I've done that for at least a month every year (not all the countries every year, obviously) for the past 20 years.

I don't consider any of that travel to be "adventure" travel - to me, it's just travel for the pleasure of it on a type of vehicle I enjoy operating.

During my working life, I was an aircraft pilot. in the 1980s & 1990s, I flew for the International Committee of the Red Cross, in war relief, in the civil wars in Angola, Mozambique, Liberia, Western Sahara (back when it was WS), South Sudan, Somalia, etc. I've been shot down with a missile, taxied over land mines, but never thought that was "adventure" work - it was just pleasant & interesting work.

More recently, just before I retired, I would deliver new aircraft from the factory to customers all over the world - I usually visited about 60 different countries every year. I didn't consider that to be "adventurous" - again, it was just pleasant & interesting work.

Why do we need to call something an "adventure" to make it seem worthwhile? Just do what you enjoy doing, that's all that matters.

Michael