Compare And Contrast The Hero's Journey And So The Adventure

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"And so the adventure begins" might have been a few of the words the two of the greatest explores said before they started their own adventure in Yellowstone National Park. John Colter and Tom Murphy are both incredible explorers but both incredibly different. John Colter discovered Yellowstone National Park in eighteen o eight and Tom Murphy explored the park in the nineteen hundreds. One difference between the men was their gear. On their adventures, they both needed supplies to survive and to help them while exploring. There is about a hundred year difference between when the men first got to Yellowstone. This means their gear was also hundred years different. When Tom explored Yellowstone, he brought many things with him

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