Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Guat-venture

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Wearing a plastic helmet, gloves and a harness,
you climb a mountain,
anticipating how you'll travel back down. 
Soon it is time, and your heart pounds.

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A man, who doesn't speak your language,
clips you onto a cable and gives you a stern nod.
Still protected by trees and a guide,
you take a few steps into open air.

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Your breath taken as you find yourself
zinging at warp speed into the wide open,
you careen above the tree line from one mountain to another. 

Zip-lining, baby!
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Zip-lining amongst water falls and tropical landscape?
Be still, my bucket-list. 
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After zipping back and forth above the tree-tops,
we were all feeling good.  Proud, gutsy and extreme. 


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Until this. 
This was an instrument of torture. 
Zip-lining ain't got nothin' on this swing set.   
This, friends, was a challenge. 
Result?  Swing set 1, me 0. 
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Check out the video, not taken by our team,
but on the same course. 
Holy moly!
In the end, we conquered.
Please add to my credentials a diploma in extreme sports. 

(Thanks to Beth and Denise for the photos!)

2 comments:

Janie said...

Madeline keeps begging me to do this with her - my thought it that it probably wasn't designed for fat ladies! Looks like a fabulous time :-)

Dasher said...

Wow Rebecca, didnt realize that you were able to do this on your trip. Good for you!

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