I’ve saved the world five times over. Unfortunately, due to a blast of cosmic radiation, none of you remember that I did it.
It’s hard being me.
[quote]debraD wrote:
If I ever find someone willing to go with me I’m going to go up Kilimanjaro. More locally (British Columbia) I’ve hiked 90 km through the Stein Valley over 8 days, took 6 days to do the North Coast Trail (Vancouver Island) when it first opened last year and some 8-10 day canoe trips. I’m planning another adventure-ish trip for the summer but I haven’t figured out where yet. [/quote]
I highly recomend a Kili trip - it was awesome. Doubly cool is adding a safari on after. 
I hope to do Macchu Picchu in a couple of years…
And if you don’t find someone - I’ll go again.
[quote]ProRaven wrote:
When I was 25 I quit my job and backpacked Europe and Africa for 6 months straight. Cost me around $7,000 total. There is something about switching trains at 2am in the middle of nowhere that teaches you resourcefullness and confidence.
Among other things, I did the following:
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Went caving/spelunking in Budapest. It was nuts, it was a 3rd rate operation and you just knew they had no insurance or first aid training.
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Went ice climbing in Switzerland.
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Spent two weeks in the Sahara Desert on a camel. My ass still hurts.
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Saw a bullfight in Madrid.
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Rented a motorcycle and rode Southern Portugal through their beaches for a few days.
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Went to every major cathedral and museum in Europe.
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Stayed in hostels that ranged from amazing (the one in Switzerland was in the Alps) to destitute (the Morocco hostel was .25 cents a night and had a pipe coming out of the wall with cold water dripping that they said was the shower).
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Saw the Pope in the Vatican in Rome. He blessed me. I don’t think it worked.
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Fell asleep on an overnight train to Germany, overslept, and woke up in Poland. Decided to see Auschwitz Concentration camp, which still haunts me to this day.
I highly recommend travelling. You won’t regret it.
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Absolutely!
Save your money and travel. Nothing like rocking up in a country you’ve never been to, not knowing anyone, needing a job and a place to stay to get your juices flowing. As soon as i finished school my mates and i would work 2 jobs for 6 months then travel for 6. Did it for 5 years. I can’t even beging to tell you…
Get out of your comfort zone and see the world, please!!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’ve saved the world five times over. Unfortunately, due to a blast of cosmic radiation, none of you remember that I did it.
It’s hard being me.[/quote]
True story.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Rafting Alaska’s Nenana River hunting grizzlies - several days. Just a buddy and me.
Sea kayaking Prince William Sound out of Whittier, AK - several days. A brother and me.
Cowboying for a living on several Montana ranches in the early 80s.
Fly in caribou hunt in interior Alaska in February. Camping on river ice at -30F. Another brother and me.
Swinging at Jamaica, Cancun and Palm Springs lifestyle resorts. (Does that count as “adventure”?)
Coast to coast semi-truck driving trip to meet prospective new bride.
Working on wagon train (yes, horses and mules) that traveled American West for several months.
Spelunking in lava tubes on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Promoting cross country dirt bike races in Montana and Utah mountains.
Breaking wild horses in desert near Tombstone, AZ.
Canoeing Montana’s Missouri Breaks - several days.
Waterskiing nude.
I’ve got a few more.[/quote]
Thanks for raising the bar!
Nice stories so far :: cough-push ::
About a month ago me and 6 buddies took a boat out of LA and tried to make it to Mexico. By “tried” I mean that we made is 40 hours until at 11pm at night with no wind our little outboard motor blew a gasket when we got stuck in a massive kelp field and had to float to shore. It was pretty freaky b/c we had NO other way of movement except the small amount of momentum.
We spent the next two days tearing the engine apart on the dock and fixing it ourselves.
Pretty manly if you ask me.
We were bare-chested too.
Back in January I decided I needed a break from my programming job so flew off to Kenya to do some volunteer work for 2 weeks. I spent the whole 2 weeks with no electricity, running water, toilets and basically eating a limited vegetarin diet (that was the worst bit). It opened my eyes to a few things.
Last week I handed in my notice and in October I’m going to Mexico to do some more volunteer work for 6 months, then I’m planning on vagabonding it for a while until I make my mind up what I want to do.
When I was out in Kenya, I met this 18 year old American kid. On his 18th birthday, he headed to the airport with his passport and a backpack and jumped on a plane to Africa with no plans. He did a few volunteer projects (where I met him) and did a lot of travelling work and living with local families. I know he visited South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar and the Seychelles. I think he also made it to Australia and New Zealand on his way home. All that at 18. Kids a f**king inspiration to me.
Nearly sixteen years working and living overseas = 85 countries to date
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Squiggles wrote:
I love adventures, so when you say “real adventure”, I assume you mean something hard, something well worth the effort.
I’ve:
Taught for a year in Japan.
Found abandoned Mayan temples using Google Earth and then trekked eight days from Cancun to get to them.
Took a three-month trek across the Rocky Mountains.
The last one was the cheapest, since I walked the entire time, and only took one backpack filled with the most minimal of items. If you’ve never experienced a thunderstorm at 14,000 feet elevation, it will be a hell of an adventure. This weird static field happens, and all your hair stands on end, you hear this weird buzz, and that basically means you have thirty seconds to get as low as possible before hell happens. Absolutely horrifying and amazing.
Forgotten Mayan temples in Cancun eh? Did you find the temple from “The Ruins”? You don’t have vines growing out your ass now do you…?[/quote]
Living in my TV-less existence, I’d never heard of this movie. After ahem watching it online, I now feel like I was royally jipped on my little trip.
I have walked through Anacostia unarmed as a white man.
Slayed a dragon with my barehands.
Snurfed down a double black diamond in the Swiss Alps while being chased by ninjas.
Sailed around the ocean in a ship made out of reeds with Thor Heyerdahl.
Got lost in Mexico, with no pesos and I can’t speak a lick of Spanish.
Backpacking in Japan for a month.
Waking up in Tokyo on a sunday morning, alone, completely broke and hungover. That’s not really an adventure, more of a fucked up situation, lol.
Coast to coast road-trip across the US (New York => Boston => a long, multi-stop trip to LA).
Went to another country for 3 years to get my undergraduate degree. Does this count?
A late-night trip across half of England to get to Stonehenge.
Presently, I’m trying to set up two businesses: one with friends, one on my own. I think that the following months will be full of a new kind of adventure :).
Some of you have fucking cool lives. I’ll get there, soon.
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:
Squiggles wrote:
I love adventures, so when you say “real adventure”, I assume you mean something hard, something well worth the effort.
I’ve:
Taught for a year in Japan.
Found abandoned Mayan temples using Google Earth and then trekked eight days from Cancun to get to them.
Took a three-month trek across the Rocky Mountains.
The last one was the cheapest, since I walked the entire time, and only took one backpack filled with the most minimal of items. If you’ve never experienced a thunderstorm at 14,000 feet elevation, it will be a hell of an adventure. This weird static field happens, and all your hair stands on end, you hear this weird buzz, and that basically means you have thirty seconds to get as low as possible before hell happens. Absolutely horrifying and amazing.
Forgotten Mayan temples in Cancun eh? Did you find the temple from “The Ruins”? You don’t have vines growing out your ass now do you…?
Living in my TV-less existence, I’d never heard of this movie. After ahem watching it online, I now feel like I was royally jipped on my little trip. [/quote]
haha
I got really drunk and got a cop to let me ride his segway lol
You guys have so much more fun than me.
i rode a really really REALLY fat chick…err…uh…cool moped one time around my house. Good thing friends never found out, mopeds are soo ghey
[quote]Pipes06 wrote:
i rode a really really REALLY fat chick…err…uh…cool moped one time around my house. Good thing friends never found out, mopeds are soo ghey[/quote]
Off topic: Might I ask why your ass is in your avatar?
[quote]masonator wrote:
Off topic: Might I ask why your ass is in your avatar?[/quote]
of course you’d notice that. i only noticed the lockers
ghey
-Born in Germany(army brat)- been to france, england, switzertland, austria, and tunisia(africa) rode camels etc.
-Went to visit a friend in aspen for winter break during my freshman year of college. He moved back home before I left but I went anyway. Lived there for a month alone skiing and making friends. Got a job and everything.
-Going rockclimbing in two weekends with some college buddies before one of them moves to new zeland for a year
-Road trip to Vail colorado this winter, cost my friend 3500 in car repair bills. Met 5 friends out their partied for a week.
-have more but those are my fav’s
[quote]masonator wrote:
Pipes06 wrote:
i rode a really really REALLY fat chick…err…uh…cool moped one time around my house. Good thing friends never found out, mopeds are soo ghey
Off topic: Might I ask why your ass is in your avatar?[/quote]
… Why isn’t your ass in your avatar?
[quote]BSrunner wrote:
save the random gorge jumping trips
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Cornell or Ithaca, or somewhere else entirely? Just curious.