"Zip" A Dee Doo Dah
My wife and I recently celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary and we did what many married couples do on occasions such as this – we went sightseeing through the woods, by hurling ourselves off some very tall trees. That’s right, we took a zip line tour through the Blue Ridge Mountains. I highly recommend it. If you’ve never heard about this recreational activity, a zip line is basically a long cable connecting two trees or poles. They put harnesses on you and you climb up the tree to a platform where they attach you to the cable using a very thin strip of material which appears to be the size and thickness of a strip of masking tape. Then they toss you off the platform, at which point you “zip” across the “line.” (Please pardon the technical jargon I am using here.) You can reach speeds of up to 40 mph, and are several stories above the ground, so obviously safety is a concern. This is why they have you strap on a helmet, and go through a rigorous 10-minute training s