The Burly Unknown!

Is a horrible idea.  It is big and scary and cold.  I ran it on Monday and Wednesday.  Bad decision making at its finest.

The rapids have names like “decapitator rock,” “bull sluice,” and “screaming left turn.”

I took a swim on “screaming left turn.”  Going down the bottom half of that rapid in the water was what I would imagine it would be like to be sodomized in half by an aquatic rhinocerous.  I’m going to stick to riding my bike for a bit.

Here is one of the guys who was with us on “Bull Sluice.”

Because I certainly can’t roll on shabbas.

Ladies and gentlemen.  I finally have my photography page up and running (kind of).  I have fought and conquered the internet demons (again… kind of) and now my beautiful work is available for all to see.  For now, it’s just pictures from Nepal and Glacier National Park, but new pics should be up this afternoon if the internet decides to be kind to me.  and Central America pics are up!  You can either click here or just go to the photography button at the top of the page.

Back in the late 90’s, an enterprising soul decided that he was tired of seeing jungles by simply walking through them.  After a gruesome and fiery death by rocket jungle chariot accident, someone else came up with a better idea:  Canopy Tours.

There are several spots throughout Central America where one can go on a canopy tour, but Monteverde is where they became famous.  Instead of engaging in my usual pithy commentary, I will let the videos and pictures speak for themselves.  The zipline in the following video was nearly a kilometer long (look how all international I am using the metric scale).  What the video doesn’t show is the seven dragons that I slayed with my Furious Lance of Vengeance (+2 strength).  Maybe I will engage in pithy commentary after all.

In the midst of all this ziplining, we attached ourselves to a rope and flung ourselves into the misty void (which begs the question, is it a void if there is mist?).  Enjoy the bonus Dio on this clip.

At the end of the canopy tour, we hiked along suspension bridges that were erected above the trees.  Hiking on some bridges after a canopy tour is a little underwhelming.  Let’s just say I was completely whelmed after the ziplines and tarzan swing.  Oh well, here is a pic anyhow.