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Interlaken, Switzerland Bungee Jump

Place: Simmental Valley in Interlaken, Switzerland
Time: Around 9:30pm
Went through: A place called Alpin Center located fifty feet from Balmers hostel
Cost: Around 280 francs!! (in 2006)
Event: I took a drink of crazy and bungee jumped off a swiss gondola.
Who with: A bunch of other people who drank a cup of crazy.

This video is short, sweet and too the point. There’s me (nearly drenched in rain) in a borrowed Balmers Hostel sweatshirt about to leap 80 feet over a swiss lake while looking down into a tiny boat where two people (more drenched in rain) wait to rope me in after a few bounces . . .

Note there’s an apology to my mother. The fact is, she told me in subtlety she didn’t want me to bungee jump. Her words I think were, “Don’t bungee jump.” So right before I leapt, my natural instincts were to tell her sorry and that I loved her. This was due to any extenuating circumstances where the girl who took the video had to mail it to my mother in Arizona with a letter stating: “I didn’t know your daughter’s name, but would have felt bad stealing her camera. So sorry for her death. Sincerely, the girl who saw her last.”

Then, I leapt. I leapt with all I had in me because I had to do it. The countdown ended and I was headed horizontal towards the horizon. Three milliseconds later, I was headed vertically to a very cold lake that was potentially my burial plot . . . instead, here I am alive and well writing about an adventure I took in Interlaken. And thankful a random girl didn’t have to write a letter to my mom