I had just celebrated my birthday a week earlier in Toronto, and now here I was, suspended from a pair of ropes 80 feet in the air inside the largest cenote cavern in the Yucatan, Cenote Maya, rappelling my way down with Henk to take a dip in the underground pool’s clear, cool waters. As I dropped down past huge stalactites dripping from the roof above me, I purposely slowed my descent so that I could really appreciate the natural beauty of the cavern surrounding me, all the while thinking: if this is what 57 looks like, I am all in!
It rises like a natural watchtower hundreds of feet above the surrounding hills and lakes, a giant granite monolith with a vertical crevice splitting it down the middle, seemingly held together with a 659-step ‘zipper’ that zig-zags up the crack.This is El...
Magical, lush, exotic. If you’re trying to guess the rainforest or off-the-beaten track destination where this photo was taken, I’ll put a wager on your getting it wrong because believe it or not, this is Kissimmee, Florida. Yep, the very same place known...
“This isn’t a ride – it’s a mental challenge”, says Tony Mehri, my Forever Florida guide/instructor who is attaching a carabiner to the front of my body harness. I’m standing on a cantilevered wooden platform jutting out from a 70-foot...
