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?
Details Matter
Photo:Flickr/Yewenyi
I was backpacking Australia in 2005 and stopping a few weeks here and there to work so I could afford to keep going. The most memorable of my working stops was in a little town on the East coast called Airlie Beach. I’ll never forget my adventures there. Particularly not the less pleasant one on the day of my arrival.
