Her other daughter lives in North Carolina and her son makes his home in Boston. In addition to family visits, Adamson's community activities, travel and adventures keep her schedule full and fulfilling. She's studied English, art history and literature at universities throughout the world, including Cambridge University's International Summer School, the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and at schools in Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland. Upon her retirement in 1990, Adamson felt she had been shut up in her classroom for too long. One of her first jaunts was to begin driving a dogsled around the boundary waters of Canada.
Snowmobiles are illegal in that area, due to noise pollution and avalanche prevention.
Adamson has worked with a dogsled outfitter to bring mail and wood to the families on Canada's border. Closer to home, Adamson volunteers with the tourism department for the town of Pine Mountain, tap dances and line dances, visits a personal trainer three days a week and is personally landscaping the grounds of the new Harris County Senior Citizens' Center. Adamson believes that all of this activity has kept her happy, healthy and cancer-free. A lot of it is in the mind. If you have an idea that you are gonna die, you do.