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<font color=purple>This I command...you are forbid
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I white water rafted w/o bringing lunch 
. We were supposed to stop for lunch, but they weren't providing it. I was starved. We eloped to Vail... that was pretty daring. We hot air ballooned there.
I went scuba diving in Trinidad and Tobago and came face to face w/ a Moray Eel (sp?). First they warn me about the Rock Fish and Sea Urchins, then they train me by telling me to kneel in the sand
. Anyway, I felt really uneasy looking at the world under my feet. It messed me up. And now that I've seen "Shark Week" a few times, no more scuba diving for me. My parents have gone shark and ship and night diving. Crazy.
I skied down a glacier in Austria during a white out squall where there are no slopes but just one big mtn top. No tree lines to follow.... but you had to try to find the little black circle markers to find your way down to the nearest town. I just prayed I'd make it to the bottom. Now that was FUN!
When I was very young (like 8) and fearless, my parents allowed me to take a small bubble helicopter ride in NH and they took me for a ride in a biplane who did a loop de loop w/o my seat belt. The story is my father grabbed me and pulled me back in. Or maybe that was their way of getting me to behave... or they wouldn't hold on next time
. They also let me jump off a bridge and slide down a dam at a lake . Now we know that the grates at the bottom can catch your feet and hold you down til you drown. Guess they didn't know that back then. We had a great time, and luckily no one got hurt. So I guess now that'll be called daring... or stupid. 
My DH and I took a trip to NH and Maine from PA on a Goldwing motorcycle. It was mostly cold and rainy and I begged for a hotel at one point. We took it up Mt Washington Rd during a very windy day, and I cried as the cycle was doing wheelies the whole way up due to the heavy load on the back end. No not me, the tent and sleeping bags and such. A helicopter was filming us and the other cars so somebody has a movie of me crying from fear the entire ride up the mtn. I wanted to get off, but we couldn't stop and I couldn't jump....no guard rails and a big drop. At the top I got sick in the bathroom and refused to go back down. Finally I worked up the nerve to get back on the bike and it was a nicer ride since the weight was uphill this time.
We climbed Precipice Trail in Arcadia in Maine which was high and straight up. Someone put pins in the mtn so one could cling to them like a ladder, and there were no guard rails. Truly exciting.
Lastly and the most DARING. My DH and I went out to Chicago to buy a High Flier.... one of those go carts w/ a parachute. Your feet dangle and you ride that thing around town and over mtns and such. That is the scariest thing I ever did.
Needless to say, we had 2 kids and all the toys got sold. No more bike or high flier. Now that I have the responsibility of 2 children, I am way too frightened to try anything daring anymore. The most daring thing will be going out on the beach in a bathing suit!
. We were supposed to stop for lunch, but they weren't providing it. I was starved. We eloped to Vail... that was pretty daring. We hot air ballooned there. I went scuba diving in Trinidad and Tobago and came face to face w/ a Moray Eel (sp?). First they warn me about the Rock Fish and Sea Urchins, then they train me by telling me to kneel in the sand
. Anyway, I felt really uneasy looking at the world under my feet. It messed me up. And now that I've seen "Shark Week" a few times, no more scuba diving for me. My parents have gone shark and ship and night diving. Crazy. I skied down a glacier in Austria during a white out squall where there are no slopes but just one big mtn top. No tree lines to follow.... but you had to try to find the little black circle markers to find your way down to the nearest town. I just prayed I'd make it to the bottom. Now that was FUN!
When I was very young (like 8) and fearless, my parents allowed me to take a small bubble helicopter ride in NH and they took me for a ride in a biplane who did a loop de loop w/o my seat belt. The story is my father grabbed me and pulled me back in. Or maybe that was their way of getting me to behave... or they wouldn't hold on next time
. They also let me jump off a bridge and slide down a dam at a lake . Now we know that the grates at the bottom can catch your feet and hold you down til you drown. Guess they didn't know that back then. We had a great time, and luckily no one got hurt. So I guess now that'll be called daring... or stupid. My DH and I took a trip to NH and Maine from PA on a Goldwing motorcycle. It was mostly cold and rainy and I begged for a hotel at one point. We took it up Mt Washington Rd during a very windy day, and I cried as the cycle was doing wheelies the whole way up due to the heavy load on the back end. No not me, the tent and sleeping bags and such. A helicopter was filming us and the other cars so somebody has a movie of me crying from fear the entire ride up the mtn. I wanted to get off, but we couldn't stop and I couldn't jump....no guard rails and a big drop. At the top I got sick in the bathroom and refused to go back down. Finally I worked up the nerve to get back on the bike and it was a nicer ride since the weight was uphill this time.
We climbed Precipice Trail in Arcadia in Maine which was high and straight up. Someone put pins in the mtn so one could cling to them like a ladder, and there were no guard rails. Truly exciting.
Lastly and the most DARING. My DH and I went out to Chicago to buy a High Flier.... one of those go carts w/ a parachute. Your feet dangle and you ride that thing around town and over mtns and such. That is the scariest thing I ever did.
Needless to say, we had 2 kids and all the toys got sold. No more bike or high flier. Now that I have the responsibility of 2 children, I am way too frightened to try anything daring anymore. The most daring thing will be going out on the beach in a bathing suit!
Me too, me too!! Last year, front seat, baby! It was worth the wait, especially since it broke down right after we got off and was on and off the rest of the day.
It was frightening, but once we got there we had a most memorable trip. So many special things happened, truly heartwarming and patriotic. I could never have done it without the encouragement of my DIS friends. Especially Dan Murphy, I just remember him really encouraging me to do it. He probably doesn't even remember that!
Now, I am trying to get back.
