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re: What's the most adventurous trip you know of some taking
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:23 pm to doublecutter
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:23 pm to doublecutter
I was a friend of Chris McCandless in Fairfax Va. Family deal.
He was the subject of Into the Wild. Obviously I didn't know him after his adventure since it killed him but I would say him and Alaska.
I knew him before that but he was very "earth-centric" without that even being a thing when I knew him. Not religious but spiritual.
He was the subject of Into the Wild. Obviously I didn't know him after his adventure since it killed him but I would say him and Alaska.
I knew him before that but he was very "earth-centric" without that even being a thing when I knew him. Not religious but spiritual.
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Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:23 pm to MorbidTheClown
I’ve swam across the Mississippi River before. Wasn’t that difficult
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:26 pm to Walt OReilly
Surprised you didn’t drink and drive across it.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:31 pm to doublecutter
I studied abroad in Morocco. Didn't know any Arabic or any of my classmates before I went...ended up riding camels into the Saharah with a tribe of nomads... was pretty epic
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:34 pm to Manzielathon
I had been drinking. Probably why I did it
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:40 pm to BrohemAlem11
Mashallah sadiqi .... inshallah fi mustaqbul asafr ila al Maghreb
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:47 pm to TheIndulger
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Once she gets to the bottom of South America she's going to fly to Cape Town and travel north all the way through Africa.
I can't really think of anything more adventurous than someone doing this solo. I mean how crazy would that trip be?
That's definitely adventurous but it also sounds pretty sketchy for a female to be doing alone. (No chauvinist) I'm all about adventure cycling but that just sounds like a bad idea.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 5:04 pm to doublecutter
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and rode all the way to the Southern tip of South America in Chile.
Well, he had to take a boat for at least a part of the way.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 5:08 pm to Manzielathon
asllem we allekum habibi!
Posted on 4/29/19 at 6:18 pm to TDsngumbo
My college roommate walked the Appalachian trail right after we graduated. Followed up the next year doing the pacific trail.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 6:27 pm to doublecutter
My old man, when he was 20, sailed down to Riohacha a few times with some fraternity brothers because of a surprise (Hey it's me) during his 3rd year at college.
This post was edited on 4/29/19 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 4/29/19 at 6:47 pm to fightin tigers
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Thought there were no roads through the border area of Panama.
There aren't. This is the end of the road for the Pan American Highway. Yaviza Panama. Not a great place. Prudhoe Bay is at the other end of the road and is only a little better.
Even with a 60 mile gap there are a lot of illegals headed up from South America to the US. When I was in Panama most seemed to be from the Congo per a Panamanian. They flew into South America and took buses to northern Colombia. Some made the hike through the jungle, some took smuggler boats from Colombia to Panama. Then it was buses from southern Panama to the US border; then an illegal crossing there. Tough journey. Every bus stop in the Darian had several people from the Congo waiting.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 7:00 pm to LSURussian
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My wife and I took an icebreaker ship to Antarctica from Ushuaia, Argentina. Does that count?
I did same trip it in 2004 aboard the Explorer II
Posted on 4/29/19 at 7:00 pm to doublecutter
Hmmm. Hope I don't get assassinated for this.
Back in the 70's I was working as a power line tech.
Reports of rolling power outages had been reported and I was one of the lucky ones that had to go out chasing these issues.
Around that time ppl kept reporting lights in the sky. The occurances seemed to be related to these "lights" somehow.
To make a long story short I was invited to travel with these extraterrestrial beings that very nice and turned out to be humans from thousands of years in the future. When I got back everyone I knew and loved had only aged about 6-7 years older. This went against everything I'd ever heard about Einstein and his theories.
Those aliens had some bad-assed tech.
Back in the 70's I was working as a power line tech.
Reports of rolling power outages had been reported and I was one of the lucky ones that had to go out chasing these issues.
Around that time ppl kept reporting lights in the sky. The occurances seemed to be related to these "lights" somehow.
To make a long story short I was invited to travel with these extraterrestrial beings that very nice and turned out to be humans from thousands of years in the future. When I got back everyone I knew and loved had only aged about 6-7 years older. This went against everything I'd ever heard about Einstein and his theories.
Those aliens had some bad-assed tech.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 7:12 pm to doublecutter
My answer to the OP is a friend who is a professional bird guide in Costa Rica went into the Brazilian Amazon in search of a bird that had just been discovered; along with a friend of his. This was 3 days of tough hiking to get to the area, with only rough trails at best. On day 5 they were cutting through thick vegetation and noticed that all the bushes around them were full of bullet ants. Bullet ants are named that because when you get bit it feels like taking a bullet. There is a scientific scale for the pain from a bite of an insect and bullet ant is at the top of the scale. With multiple bites they'd need a hospital which was impossible. Snakes were probably actually a bigger danger - one bite from a bushmaster and it is over. They did get away without a bite and did find the bird. And 2 years later Brazil built a road into the area and the bird is easy to find now.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:38 pm to doublecutter
My dad and I went on a 34 day roadtrip from Tennessee to Vegas and all in between.. camped 17 nights, hotel 17 nights.. 7500 miles total.
Never forget it.
Never forget it.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:42 pm to tennessee391
A friend of mine and his newly wed wife paddled from San Francisco to Hawaii. It took them 45 days.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:42 pm to doublecutter
Drove a class C camper up the Ice Road Trucker (Prudhoe Bay Supply Road}gravel road over 400 miles each way, about half above the artic circle. Had 24 hour daylite for 5 days
Posted on 4/29/19 at 8:46 pm to doublecutter
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I know someone who, in the late '60s,rode his motorbike across the Southern border and rode all the way to the Southern tip of South America in Chile.
How did he cross the Isthmus of Panama? There is no road connecting North and South America as there is a gap called the Darien Gap, a roughly 55 mile stretch where there are no roads, that separates the two continents.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 9:05 pm to WeeWee
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I was planning on going diving with Great White Sharks in South Africa without a cage
I have a friend who did that, but with a cage. If you saw the pics he took, you would definitely want the cage.
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