{"id":529,"date":"2011-05-17T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:47:48","slug":"tom-la-mariposa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/tom-la-mariposa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziplining in Mindo, Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"
uh, is he?….<\/p>\n
yep. He is. Most definitely. There is no doubt about the fact that Tom is rushing toward me as I wait on the zipline landing platform, going about 2,000 miles an hour, upside down and splayed out like a starfish, his face red from all the blood rushing to it, and his crotch inches from the face of the zipline worker who is strapped in behind him, in a move appropriately nicknamed “la Mariposa”.<\/p>\n
“That looked pretty funny” I told him as he was unclipped from the cable.<\/p>\n
“Not as funny as your two-person superman.”<\/p>\n
Touche.<\/p>\n
Ziplining in Mindo is pretty fun once you get over the whole “I could very easily die while strapped inappropriately to a stranger” thing.<\/p>\n
This was Tom’s first time ziplining, and my first time ziplining for real. I had done something called ziplining in Australia, but it was nothing like what we experienced today. There was no hurtling a couple of thousand feet at breakneck speeds with cloudforest (and the hard, hard ground!) rushing by a couple hundred feet below us. I don’t think there was anyway I could have died that time. Maybe broken a bone, but that’s about it. That said, today was very nice. I mostly enjoyed the wind which cooled off the sweat from my brow, and the fact that I managed not to pee myself on any of the 13 lines, even “la Bestia”.<\/p>\n
