Whats the most awesome thing or adventure you ever did?

Andrewf20

Hey all, im interested to hear what great adventures or fun filled life changing experiences yee boardsies have done?* Im looking for ideas for next year either here or abroad. Thanks!

* And putting the bins out last Thursday doesnt count.

krudler

went to the states by myself in 2010 for a few weeks, bus tour of a bunch of different states on the West coast, best holiday ever.

squod

Canaries with the lads. /Thread.

MadYaker

Spent a few weeks working in a school in the kwazulu natal province in south africa. It was eye opening to say the least. You hear a lot in the irish media about irish families in poverty recently due the recession/gov cuts and it makes me sick. Nobody in this country bar the homeless know true poverty.

connundrum

Euro 2012.

Started 'that' rendition of Fields of Athenry.

You're all welcome.

Celly Smunt

Toronto to Albuquerque by bus,cost pennies for the adventure i gained as the bus was my accommodation along with garage showers.

TheUsual

Caroline Morahan.

eyescreamcone

Inca Trail to Machu Pichu and tour of Peru.
Amazon, Cusco, Lima, Lake Titicaca
Followed by The Galapagos on board a boat that island hopped to all the best snorkelling and animal viewing spots.
Saw Lonesome George before he died.
Super trip.

flutterflye

Parachuting maybe?
Dirt bikes jumping over stuff in the woods?
Magic mushrooms?
I don't know - I haven't done much.

dodderangler

Leprechaun hunt
Never did catch the little bugger >:(



I do falconry I think it's awesome and is always an adventure

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Served in 3 different conflict zones.

El Guapo!

Got lost in the lingerie section of Dunnes Stores with a few priests.

Sauve

I'm going to Rossinver tomorrow.
Beat that.

strobe

Smoked some salvia crushed up with DMT crystals before. An experience. Can still remember whole conversations I apparently had with the lads my brain created from when we didn't (obviously, because they don't actually exist) grew up together, word for word like. So... there's that.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Oh, I got a really, really, really, really red Monster Munch back in the early 90's, before they made them sh1t.

That was awesome, truely was!

Japer

Dean09 wrote: »

Got lost in the lingerie section of Dunnes Stores with a few priests.

got dunne in a few Priests with some lost lingerie

frag420

Put the bins out last thurday. Fell on the way back.

Epic trip!!

Japer

went to funderland.


walked down O'Connel street after midnight one night. What a risky adventure.

iamstop

Best thing I ever did was a trek through Taman Nagara in Malaysia.
It's the oldest rainforest in the world. Never been affected by floods, glaciers, volcanoes etc. The wild live there is just awesome. In some places the termites are so dense you can hear them crunching in unison.
Big ants, saw a flying fox flying, wild hog running wild, crazy ants all over the hut, massive centipedes, large variety of fungus, lizards and other reptiles.

Nearly got lost and it was starting to get dark, just near the end the leaches woke up, luckily I only got attacked by 1 but I managed to get it off.

After I got out of the jungle and into a clearing I hear a load of screams. Seems I just woke up the slumbering leeches and they went full scale on the poor group of people who were just behind me by about 20 minutes. They came out with blood all down their legs.

TheBegotten

I had fun once. It was awful. :eek:

Seriously though, the youth should be allowed more freedom. Whenever my Dad tells me a story from his teenage years, there's always a crucial freedom he had that we don't. I mean, what 16/17 year old is too irresponsible to book themselves into a YOUTH HOSTEL?!?

Also, the legal age of consent is too high. That should toss the fox amongst the chickens.

Andrewf20

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Followed by The Galapagos on board a boat that island hopped to all the best snorkelling and animal viewing spots.
Saw Lonesome George before he died.
Super trip.

Just back from the Galapagos myself. Snorkelling + seal lions was pretty fab when they go blasting past you.

iamstop

Here is a link to some of my pics from Malaysia:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5ah0zc3iuzwsd7k/LbMFQ2ec5Y

Canis Lupus

Cycled from France to Accra Ghana.

Although another boardsie has cycled from Ireland across to SE Asia so I'm just a beginner by comparison.

Cupcake_Crisis

Did a sky dive for charity, was phenomenal!

LizT

Road trip from NY to LA.

nice_very

something I think was pretty cool, was, I was bought a pint by a very famous Basque spanish rock guy, while watching the 2008 all Ireland final in a bar in the Basque Country and explaining hurling to him, he also told me how much he admired the Irish, spoke a bit with him about his music, very cool guy... of course I ended up dancing with Brazilian women I could barely understand later that night in a bar in the same town......

uch

Spent the whole night in a hotel in Slovakia trying to check in, in a ManKini, and still got a breakfast

OnTheCounter

MadYaker wrote: »

Spent a few weeks working in a school in the kwazulu natal province in south africa. It was eye opening to say the least. You hear a lot in the irish media about irish families in poverty recently due the recession/gov cuts and it makes me sick. Nobody in this country bar the homeless know true poverty.

the homeless get the dole, medical cards, bus passes, free svp meals, ect, ect.

OnTheCounter

connundrum wrote: »

Euro 2012.

Started 'that' rendition of Fields of Athenry. You're all welcome.

probably over a hundred lads telling the same story.

now if you got the crowd singing the breakfast roll song at the euros you could be somewhat confident in your claim to fame.

OnTheCounter

benwavner wrote: »

Served in 3 different conflict zones.

did anybody breach the checkpoint.

OnTheCounter

First proper gf got me to trim the forest a bit.

After a while i trimmed it a bit more.

then i got the idea to head downtown with the razor and shave it.

not a good 10 days.

northernpower

Drove the Hai Van pass (Vietnam) on a Minsk - It is as scary and amazing as you think it would be.

Canis Lupus

benwavner wrote: »

Served in 3 different conflict zones.

Capt. Harris: Be advised. We've got zips in the wire down here.
Phantom Pilot: Roger your last, Bravo Six. Can't run it any closer. We're hot to trot and packing snake and nape, but we're bingo on fuel.
Capt. Harris: For the record, it's my call. Dump everything you've got left on my pos. I say again, expend all remaining in my perimeter. It's a lovely ****ing war. Bravo Six out.
Phantom Pilot: Roger your last, Bravo Six. We copy. It's your call. Get them all in their holes down there. Hang tough, Bravo Six. We're coming cocked for treetops.

Jimoslimos

iamstop wrote: »

Best thing I ever did was a trek through Taman Nagara in Malaysia.
It's the oldest rainforest in the world. Never been affected by floods, glaciers, volcanoes etc. The wild live there is just awesome. In some places the termites are so dense you can hear them crunching in unison.
Big ants, saw a flying fox flying, wild hog running wild, crazy ants all over the hut, massive centipedes, large variety of fungus, lizards and other reptiles.

Nearly got lost and it was starting to get dark, just near the end the leaches woke up, luckily I only got attacked by 1 but I managed to get it off.

After I got out of the jungle and into a clearing I hear a load of screams. Seems I just woke up the slumbering leeches and they went full scale on the poor group of people who were just behind me by about 20 minutes. They came out with blood all down their legs.

Carbon copy mate! For a couple of hours I was also lost there. Trekked up to one of the peaks and decided to take what looked to be a closed off pathway down. Mistake! Ended up with the leech bites too and luckily found our way back by dusk. The maps you get are useless, so we just concentrated on trying to find the river to follow that back.

I did hear some horror stories though from a group of French/Italian backpackers who went on the mountain climb for a few days!

Vicar in a tutu

punched a dog in the bum LOL

MadsL

Joined boards 9 years ago, been a rollercoaster ever since.

Truthfully, heading off to stop a wedding in Germany. I've told the story here before.

Two months and 4550km on a motorbike around Vietnam. Done thousands since but the first trip was an eye opener.

Mint Sauce

Snowboarding down Black Runs in Alpe d'Huez.

80kph on a road bike.

Crossing the finish line of a marathon (less than 1% of the worlds population).

Been pretty boring so far.

homemadecider

Cycled into the Atacama desert (the driest desert in the world) on my own, with no water, food or suncream.

In hindsight, extremely stupid; at the time, pretty awesome. I was only 20 and I didn't have the sense I have these days.

Il Trap

iamstop wrote: »

Best thing I ever did was a trek through Taman Nagara in Malaysia.
It's the oldest rainforest in the world. Never been affected by floods, glaciers, volcanoes etc. The wild live there is just awesome. In some places the termites are so dense you can hear them crunching in unison.
Big ants, saw a flying fox flying, wild hog running wild, crazy ants all over the hut, massive centipedes, large variety of fungus, lizards and other reptiles.

Nearly got lost and it was starting to get dark, just near the end the leaches woke up, luckily I only got attacked by 1 but I managed to get it off.

After I got out of the jungle and into a clearing I hear a load of screams. Seems I just woke up the slumbering leeches and they went full scale on the poor group of people who were just behind me by about 20 minutes. They came out with blood all down their legs.

Please excuse my leech-related ignorance, but could you explain this a bit further? You were treking through leech-infested jungle in which all/most of the leeches were asleep as night was drawing close, which you woke and they had a free-for-all on the trekkerswho came after you?

Not being a smart-arse at all here. Just curious as well as somewhat surprised that leeches were creatures that you could 'wake-up'! :pac:

Odysseus

Parachuting, paragliding, and flying a glider are all great; however, due to Irish weather you end up standing around a lot waiting on the right conditions. I have done the Sahara Marathon three times that is great, plus you are helping a great cause.

I also did the MdS ,however, that is very expensive. Still on running there is a great 100km race in Sweden every July, It's starts at midnight as it is daylight 24hrs at that time of the year there. I think I ran this three times as well.

I have done a few shooting trips to places like Prague, I hunt here but I don't own a hand gun so I have used them there. The thing is these thing cost money and for the next year or so I don't think I will be repeating any of the above.

I am recently back from truck driving into the far side of Eastern Europe. That was an adventure. It was a wedding gift to a good friend who was worried that his honeymoon would leave him letting down a few customers of his truck driving. So my wedding gift was to spend a good bit of time and money getting a truck drivers license and doing the driving for him for the time he was away.

Good trip - learned a lot - personal challanges - all the stuff youd want from such an undertaking.

Otherwise life itself has been adventure enough for me and I do at least try to live a relatively interesting one compared to the average.

Mr Benevolent

benwavner wrote: »

Served in 3 different conflict zones.

Tallaght, Finglas and Mayfield?

Fizman

Confab wrote: »

Tallaght, Finglas and Mayfield?

There's a Supermacs in each so it must be.

Duggy747

Was in the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York back in 2004, was crazy walking down blocks of wide, closed down streets in front of roughly 2 million people. Cops were handing out Irish coffees to us like there was no tomorrow so I was half-cut doing the thing

When the parade stopped we were right beside a derelict building which was sealed and had flyers all over it saying it was booked for an episode of Law & Order, so I took a few with me :pac:

Canis Lupus

homemadecider wrote: »

Cycled into the Atacama desert (the driest desert in the world) on my own, with no water, food or suncream.

In hindsight, extremely stupid; at the time, pretty awesome. I was only 20 and I didn't have the sense I have these days.

That was pretty silly

PostHack

LizT wrote: »

Road trip from NY to LA.

Same.

Seaneh

cycled down death road (most dangerous road in the world) in bolivia on a mointain bike and the. ziplined down a mountain over jungle and cocoa fields. fun times.


also ran with the bulls in Pamplona. that will put the ****s up ya the first time!

Conall Cernach

A lot of the "adventures" listed so far are of the touristy type. I'd like to have a real adventure like trekking across the Sahara looking for a lost city or panning for gold in the Sierra Madre that kind of thing.

jester77

Earlier this year I did a boat trip on the Mekong, was interesting. Staying in places that served rat, places that have posters saying that you shouldn't bring children back to the room for sex, eating spiders for lunch.

petes

I had sex once!