Whats the most awesome thing or adventure you ever did?

northernpower · 26-10-2012 03:28AM

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

Canis Lupus · 26-10-2012 04:04AM

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 · 26-10-2012 04:20AM

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 · 26-10-2012 05:15AM

punched a dog in the bum LOL

MadsL · 26-10-2012 05:55AM

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.

26-10-2012 06:26AM

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

Mint Sauce · 26-10-2012 08:48AM

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 · 26-10-2012 08:56AM

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 · 26-10-2012 09:30AM

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 · 26-10-2012 09:44AM

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.

26-10-2012 10:16AM

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 · 26-10-2012 10:20AM

benwavner wrote: »

Served in 3 different conflict zones.

Tallaght, Finglas and Mayfield?

Fizman · 26-10-2012 10:32AM

Confab wrote: »

Tallaght, Finglas and Mayfield?

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

Duggy747 · 26-10-2012 10:34AM

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 · 26-10-2012 10:36AM

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 · 26-10-2012 10:36AM

LizT wrote: »

Road trip from NY to LA.

Same.

Seaneh · 26-10-2012 10:43AM

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 · 26-10-2012 11:24AM

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 · 26-10-2012 11:26AM

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 · 26-10-2012 11:35AM

I had sex once!

bluecode · 26-10-2012 11:49AM

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.......

If only!

Some interesting adventures to be read here. I realise now how boring my life basically was. Not that I didn't try for adventure. It just never happened. Now I do fly aeroplanes and have jumped out of one one a few occasions. (With a parachute). I suppose some would find that exciting and I suppose there were some adventurous moments when the weather turned bad or the aircraft developed a problem. But really they don't count.

The most adventurous thing I can think of was riding a motorcycle around Brands Hatch circuit. Basically flat out for twenty laps. I was terrified the entire time but never slowed down once even though I ran off the road three times. That was pretty exciting.

Now I'll have to sit down and think of some adventure I can do in the future. Something exciting. Hitch hiking in Afghanistan?:eek:

Sorcha16 · 26-10-2012 12:33PM

Climbed Carrantuohill during a storm, did a skydive in the Middle East, a bungee jump in Brazil and drove down the Shankill Road in Belfast on a team bus flying 10 Irish flags without realising where we were

Canis Lupus · 26-10-2012 01:52PM

Conall Cernach wrote: »

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.

THe only thing you'll find in the sahara is a landmine or become the latest Westerner to be kidnapped. Oh, and sand. Lots of sand.

Music4life · 26-10-2012 02:06PM

MadsL wrote: »

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.

Where can I find this story? Can't find it in the search engine

spatchco · 26-10-2012 02:23PM

flew a marchetti sf260 with air combat use over calafornia,,wow

allibastor · 26-10-2012 02:24PM

I knew a lad once who both parents dies within a few months of each other, young enough like. He was the only child so he was left loads of cash.

He just up and left college one day, went to the airport. Ricket to the states. Bought a cruiser bike, harely i think, and went on a 7 month tour of the states. Went back to JFK and gave the bikes keys to a car park attendent. Came home.

If i had money i would be doing that like a shot.

26-10-2012 02:30PM

benwavner wrote: »

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!

When you picked up the heavily coated Monster Munch, your brain recognises the extra weight and you instinctively start salivating uncontrollably. As soon as you muster up the courage to taste it, the intense flavour overwhelms your body and shuts down all of your other senses. This state of euphoria only lasts seconds but the memories and remorse that you will never experience it again will haunt you forever.

bullpost · 26-10-2012 02:30PM

Delivered a baby.

eyescreamcone · 26-10-2012 02:32PM

bullpost wrote: »

Delivered a baby.

DHL?

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-10-2012 02:32PM

I created life

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