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4theCYcle

4theCYcle

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What is the most exhilarating and thrilling experience you've ever had? Also, what are some bucket list items that you would like to check off the list that are crazy??


Mine would either be Cedar Point roller coasters - the Millennium Force and the Top Thrill Dragster - speed and height

Or taking a cable car up to Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland.


Bucket list includes:
skydiving - which should get accomplished next year
hot air balloon - next year
white water river rafting
climb a pretty tall mountain
 
Good thread!

For me:

First time I did a double black diamond out in Colorado.
Cliff jumping in Jamaica.
Vertical drop slide at Six Flags Chicago (the kind where you stand in this tube and the floor drops out from under you).
 
Here is my list that i've done

Snow Cat back country skiing.
White water rafting
Drove in a demolition derby once
Cliff jumping
Telling my wife that dress made her look fat.
 
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that time I realized the angry heifer grunting at me on the other side of a pig fence was actually a Holstein bull in with breeding age heifers was damned exhilarating.
 
I was in The Phillipines early last year, and was taken to a back alley **** fight in Cebu City. Now, I know the activity is controversial and unsavory in the U.S., and I agree that it should be that way, but it's a national past time there, even though the kind I visited is, in fact, illegal. A couple of things that made this fit the topic.

1. I was the only non-Filipino there, and there were hundreds of people. I may have been just as interesting to the locals as the activity itself

2. I mentioned this kind of thing is illegal. Well, the police did show up, and there really wasn't anywhere to go. Come to find out, some high ranking city official was there, so the police just got back in their cars and drove off. An uncomfortable few minutes, though, for sure
 
My conference call got cancelled this morning so I got to get some work done...

Losing one of the fuel caps on a Cessna 152 while on my 2nd solo. The fuel cap slammed into the horizontal stabilizer as it few off, making a very large BANG sound. Needed new underwear when I got on the ground.

Scuba diving in Cozumel at about 50ft. An extremely large barracuda swam up me and got about a foot and a half from my face and just looked at me for about 30secs with his large teeth showing. All I did was stare back and hide me wedding ring with my other hand as I had heard they can strike at shiney objects.

Deer hunting when I was around 14 years old. A bunch of local hillbillies had trespassed on to our land and began shooting up the woods. Slug got close enough to my head that I heard it whiz by.
 
Sky-diving was amazing. Hashim (the instructor) told me I was good at it and should go through training to jump solo, but I don't think I could feel good about going again now that I've got kids.
 
Probably the night my friends and I were surrounded and interrogated by the Davenport gang/drug unit. Summertime between graduating high school and freshman year at ISU. 1am and there were literally officers dropping down out of trees and running from behind houses on either side of us to encircle us. Apparently they'd been following us for a couple of hours after they saw us shooting BB guns at a rabbit. Best part was when the Spanish translator stepped out of one of the vehicles and my friend says "Oh, hi Mrs. <removed>!" He had dated her daughter in the past. No one arrested, thankfully. Good times.
 
Whitewater rafting in Colorado, class IV rapids. Fell in twice. First and last time I'll ever do that.
 
Probably a walking tour through a certain section of Rio de Janeiro, where the guide told us NOT to touch any children who ran out to us because their drug-crazed relatives were hiding in the shadows to come out and start attacking us for 'hurting" the children.

Okay, not thrilling. Just dangerous.

Thrilling? Backpacking in and out of the Grand Canyon, the Ho Rain Forest, and to Lake Lincoln in Glacier.

Also, camped off a frontage road once outside of Jackson Hole and woke up in the middle of the night because of roaring outside the tent. Fortunately, it was a trucker grinding his gears while going up the pass, and not a grizzly.
 
Getting caught in a lightning storm at about 13,500 feet in the Colorado Rockies with no shelter anywhere nearby, and already bordering the point of physical exhaustion. Lucky to be alive.
 
Walden4Prez said:
My conference call got cancelled this morning so I got to get some work done...

Losing one of the fuel caps on a Cessna 152 while on my 2nd solo. The fuel cap slammed into the horizontal stabilizer as it few off, making a very large BANG sound. Needed new underwear when I got on the ground.

Scuba diving in Cozumel at about 50ft. An extremely large barracuda swam up me and got about a foot and a half from my face and just looked at me for about 30secs with his large teeth showing. All I did was stare back and hide me wedding ring with my other hand as I had heard they can strike at shiney objects.

Deer hunting when I was around 14 years old. A bunch of local hillbillies had trespassed on to our land and began shooting up the woods. Slug got close enough to my head that I heard it whiz by.
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Did you hear dueling banjos and someone talking about squealing like a pig?
 
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