Bungee babe
Photo: Flickr/Melyviz
Standing 164 feet above ground the wind whipped around my body. I began to feel fragile and heavy. With a headache from the night before, a queasy stomach and my heart pounding in my ears I inched myself toward the edge. I didn’t recognize anyone except the crazy man yelling, “jump!” The unspoken “cool” rule is to do as many wild and idiotic things while abroad as possible. I just never imagined myself bungee jumping in Cairns, Australia with total strangers. Why couldn’t I have just settled with a tattoo or piercing?
Chilly up Kili - climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Feeling like a child on her first day at school, I stand apprehensively at Machame Gate, the starting point of my long-awaited trek to the summit (hopefully) of Mount Kilimanjaro. A sea of porters carrying rucksacks,bags of food, barrels of eggs, tents, mats, all unbelievable balanced on their little heads and fragile shoulders, sprint past me and disappear into the dense vegetation.
