Sometimes she slipped mentally back into childhood and had delightful adventures she would have been ashamed to tell her adult world.

For anyone who wants to flee the summer crowds (a relative term in Oregon) or Cannon Beach's kitschy gift shops and galleries filled with seaside paintings, a trip 20 miles south along Highway 101 offers many delightful adventures.

The title of his book, Wheels and Woes, suggests a less than event-free ride but McGurn says "it seems to have been a delightful adventure, despite bad road surfaces, dust and lack of signposts.

After that the whole thing became just a delightful adventure, nothing more.

For now it was a lark, and he was embarked on a most delightful adventure after too long a time of no fun at all.

Beginning 40 years ago, the two inspired series of books that started with "The Cat in the Hat" and "Little Bear" turned the process of learning to read into a delightful adventure.

Always as they rode the two talked gaily, in glad anticipation of the marvels they would certainly see, of the pleasures they would surely find, and of the delightful adventures that without doubt awaited them.

Since a young girl she had been used to spending her own, and now, thanks to Mercedes she was doing it again, and, out of her profits, assaying more expensive and delightful adventures in lingerie.

All of my delightful adventures are now in the past.

Like many returning veterans, Frankenstein settled into small-town life, becoming a genial neighbor who "began having delightful adventures with Dracula, the Wolfman and other horrific creatures.