I like the concept of finding adventure where you are, rather than glamorizing big travel adventures. It's better for the environment and more accessible to more people (including people limited on time or money, people with disabilities and responsibilities). As a person with a full-time job, not a ton of disposable income, and a number of physical and health restrictions, I'm unlikely to do a lot of adventure traveling, but I still crave the outdoors and a connection with nature. A lot of the general principles Humphreys suggested made sense to me, including:

- Go somewhere new, be curious when you get there. That's the principle of adventure; the other specifics don't matter.
- Start small, but do start.
- The most delightful parts of your journey will be things you don't expect.  
- The hardest part is getting out the door.
- Though the journey is more important than the destination, drumming up a destination can help with that initial hurdle of getting yourself going. Any excuse will do; the book is full of suggestions such as walking or biking a journey you'd normally take by transit or car; making a circle of a defined radius around your home; touring important landmarks from your/your family's history; visiting the highest peak, oldest tree, or another local landmark in your area; or pointing to a random spot on a map. 

The book straddles an awkward line between how-to and travel book; most of it is essays/travelogue about Humphreys' microadventures in the London area, and then there is a section of light camping advice. For me personally, a bit more variation in the microadventures would have helped drive the point home that this is something anyone could really do. They are meant to be varying challenge levels, but even the easy ones seemed too hard to me. Almost all of them involve sleeping in a random field in a bivvy bag. Although Humphreys stresses that anyone can adapt the spirit of microadventure to their own situation, I found it difficult to generalize from the essays. Unlike Humphreys, I live in a place with harsh weather, little public transit, and no lawful "right to roam." I'm also not fit or outdoorsy. I'm sure he'd have ways around these issues, but I found myself coming away from the essays with more of a feeling of "well good for him" than "I can too!" I understand that travel is antithetical to the idea of a microadventure, but perhaps an anthology of different contributors would have made it easier to see how to adapt the principles to different types of locations and abilities.