Amp It Up!

Okay, guys, here it is: the live video of jumping off the tallest building in New Zealand.  The ride down is at about 85 mph.  BIG fun.

This jump was a risk that I opted to take, and that my boyfriend Michael opted out of.  Most everyone else has said they wouldn’t dream of [...]

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Our last adventure in New Zealand was spelunking!  Which is caving.  We abseiled (rappelled) 300 feet down into the Lost World caves of Waitomo.  Here we are at the top of the abseil:

That’s my fabulous boyfriend Michael on the right.  As you can see, they pipe dry ice fog into the crevasse for effect. 

Ha!  Just [...]

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I wanted to post info about my jump right after I did it.  Well, as might be expected, in the little coastal surfer town of Raglan, NZ, there wasn’t any Internet access.  But there WERE beautiful views:

SO.  Here’s a picture of me prior to jumping off the tallest building in New Zealand, the SkyTower:

Now as [...]

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Thanks to your vote of confidence (Patty), I did it! I jumped 630 feet from Auckland’s SkyTower. Talk about widening your comfort zone! WOOHOO!
Stay tuned to this blog, photos and videos will be posted when we get to Raglan, where you can find some of the most awesome left-breaking waves in the world.
Good on ya!

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Hello my friends, from Down Under!  Visiting the beautiful country of New Zealand again, and absolutely adoring it.

Here’s a picture from last year at dinner at the SkyTower, the southern hemisphere’s tallest building at 1076 feet:

Pictured are my honey Michael, me, and our friends Connie Ling and David Hogben, who were engaged the night this [...]

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Back in April, I told you about a health problem I was having: recurring bladder and kidney infections that had put me in the hospital twice.  I also told you that I was going to use this as a self-healing exercise, because I didn’t want to be on constant antibiotics and other medications, or cause [...]

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