Edgy Travel
By Tony on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Once while traveling with my grandparents as a child, we stopped off at a mountain viewpoint overlooking Lake Elsinore in Southern California. My grandma Mary thought one boulder looked particularly enticing and asked me to climb over the safety barrier and crawl out on to a crumbling rock ledge to get a “good picture.” It became a family joke that only grandma Mary would be crazy enough to send her grandchild out on to an overhanging chunk of rock to get a better photo op. Little did my family know it was just the beginning.
So when I came across MatadorTrips.com’s Photo Essay: 13 Places to Get Close to the Edge, I started digging through the old photos to find some of our favorite “edges.” Two of them are in locations mentioned in the article! But clearly a visit to Norway is in our future.
Topics: United States | 2 Comments »
August 31st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Oh so young! And so much hair! (Tee-hee!)
And by the way, it is because of people like YOU that we have barriers and “DANGER: keep away from edge” signs in the old U.S. of A. Society protecting you from yourself. Or, society protecting itself from lawsuits.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:58 am
For those of you who don’t know Laurelle, she’s always had a problem with my dangling my legs over deadly abysses. Go figure! Oh, and my highly creative short cuts, too.