Canopy Tour: Take 2

Written by Kyle about Costa Rica. Feelin' excited

For those of you meniacal followers (or stalkers), remember that we have done a canopy tour once before in El Salvador which you can read about here. Not being the type of people to just do something once, we decided to go ahead and do it again while we were in Costa Rica. Besides, you seriously can't walk a block without seeing at least 10 signs showing happy people flying through the jungle on their canopy tour. All that advertising just wears you down and it's impossible not to give in. Eventually, you open up your wallet and just go for it.

For those of you uninitiated to the world of ziplines and canopy tours it basically goes like this: you wear a snug harness and a good-for-nothing plastic helmet, then you basically hang on to a steel wire as you fly through the air through trees, past waterfalls, monkeys, and jaguars (ok, not jaguars, but that would be cool!).

Jim is scared of the zipline. Wuss. Arenal, Costa Rica

Jim, Kristine, Kyle, Bessie looking awesome before the zipline

Kristine getting ready to take the plunge, Arenal, Costa Rica

Well, let me just get out of the way and let you experience it for yourself:

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August 10, 2008 mumsie: Thanks for taking me along for The Ride, Kyle! I LOVED it! And Bess, ya set me up for the FUN with your jovial antics!! But since I wasn't on that bridge with you, Bouncing Bessie, I won't speak for those who were made to share THAT experience! LOL ---p.s. Neat waterfall! (Is the "Other Side" called a waterFELL?) tee-hee!

August 10, 2008 DADDIO: Wow! Great video! Felt like I was riding along with you. Thanks for your efforts making it and sharing it with all of us...

August 15, 2008 Bessie: Glad you liked it!

August 13, 2008 Linda: Bessie, hoping your co-zipliners have forgiven you for your trampoline bridge routine! The views from the zipline were gorgeous. You seemed high above the trees in most shots so "monkey involvement" appeared minimal. The ride into and out of the fog had to be fun. What a great activity for the four of you to share!

August 15, 2008 Bessie: Kristine actually had a great comment to the bridge jumping - that she was the only oldest sibling of the group of us, and therefore the only mature one. :)

It was gorgeous up above the tree-tops, and there was very little monkey involvement. Good that we never got monkey presents, but flying at up to 45 mph also means they didn't really want to stick around for us to watch them!

August 23, 2008 Todd and Liam: very nice, Lins and I did this in the Mexican rain forrest outside Puerto Vallerta....Now Liam wants to type.

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Now you with all the launguage experience can translate...

August 24, 2008 Kyle: My translation says that he wants another cookie and that you should listen to EVERYTHING that he wants because he is right all the time.

August 26, 2008 Bessie: You got the cookie part right, but he wants to watch the sloth video first.

That's some good typing

Canopy Tour: Take 2

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