Ever Been A Thrill Seeker In Your Life?

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  1. Cody Fousnaugh

    Cody Fousnaugh Supreme Member
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    You know, like buggee jumping from a bridge, rock climbing up the side of a huge rock, skydive, go on the ride at Stratosphere Tower high over Las Vegas? Ever think about climbing to the Summit of Mt Everest or another very high mountain in the world? How about walking across a free-span bridge between to canyons below?

    Now, many, many years ago, I went on both Colossus and the other famous roller coaster at Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. In 2000, wife and I went on GhostRider at Knotts Berry Farm. I darn near passed out after riding GhostRider. Have been on a Double Ferris Wheel and got somewhat scared when the wheel I was on, was stopped at the top (but kept going around). Have also been on the old Rock-O-Plane, where, a rider could rock the plane to the point it would go all the way around. There was also a "stop" on the handle that riders would hold on to, that, when pulled and held, would stop the plane upside down or sideways.
    Only other thing I can think of, was when my wife took me up to the 25 floor of a hotel/casino in Las Vegas. I took one look out the window, turned around and told me wife...…."PLEASE get me out of here!"

    The above is the extent of my "thrill seeking", but amusement rides are nothing compared to what young folks do today.

    What about you. Ever done something that really ended up scaring the "begeees" out of you??
     
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    Despite the fact that I did a 145 ft Bungy Jump on my 65th birthday, White Water Rafting, Scuba Diving to 100 feet during much of my retirement I never considered myself a Thrill Seeker.
     
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    Somehow amusement park rides and elevators don't fit into my idea of "thrill seeking." And no, I have never been interested in risking my life for a thrill. I prefer to be thrilled by finding a bargain in the shoe department.
     
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    No. I am willing to take risks for an adventure but when the risk itself is the adventure, it doesn't make sense for me.
     
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    I love thrill rides.......I am an adrenaline junkie. I celebrated turning 65 by riding every rollercoaster and thrill ride at an amusement park (some of them more than once....) It was my "swan song" as my ophthalmologist told me I had to choose between my retinas and my thrill rides.

    A few years before, I rode the vertical accelerator on top of the Stratosphere four times in a row without getting off. Well, I *did* say I liked wild rides.

    I have since then done some intensive ziplining (one of them over 4000 feet long over a gorge in Costa Rica. I think I will henceforth have to confine my thrills to ziplining as it's easier on the body and the retinas while still still satisfying my adrenaline jones.

    I WILL NOT skydive. I *do* have my limits, and that includes not jumping out of a perfectly good plane that's not on fire.
     
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    In Bold.... :...Have you never flown in a plane Cody... ?... I'm scared of heights but I can fly without problems. I've been to the top of the Eiffel Tower.... ( it's skeeery looking down so I don't)....

    I've been to some really high towers all around the world.. , and yes it's scary for me!!

    I've always been ready to try things, ..slightly hedonistic in that way, ridden the fastest fairground rides, white water rafted ..etc ... one of the scariest things for me was walking the Camito Del Ray in Spain...

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    I really have always wanted to skydive... reallly !!! My fear of heights is what keeps me from doing it... , it's all very well being inside a plane and feeling protected to an extent, but sitting on the edge of the doorway waiting to fall out , is a complete 'nother thing!!

    My daughter has sky-dived, maybe 5 or 6 times, she loves it!!
     
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    I've seen this before online. Have also seen a bus traveling on a very narrow dirt road going along side a mountain. There's absolutely NO WAY that I could've ever rode a bus like that or walked on this thing in this picture.
     
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    I know that amusement park rides aren't really "thrill seeker" type things, but to those that wouldn't ever ride a "thrill ride", those rides could be for "thrill seekers".

    There are those that call "thrill seekers" stupid, but to "thrill seekers", what they do is exciting. Thing is, some "thrill seekers" end up being killed from the "thrill" they end up doing. Sort of makes some folks wonder, "If the person knows just how dangerous what they are about to do can be, why do it? Do they have a Death Wish?"
     
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    No Buses go along The Camino del ray.....
     
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    Riding and driving a 1970
    Stingray Corvette down straight short race track at 130 miles an hour-only to find out later how deadly the track really was.
    I am not fond of heights, but not overly squeamish either. Um, think I will stop right there.;)
     
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