www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

We never had rock climbing as a sport during our younger days. It could have been a lot of fun! It looks simple but not really that easy. Strong legs are essential to push and haul your body upwards but strong hands and even fingers are important too, I will show you later why the hands and fingers are important. Here you can see my children doing it. Clarence climbing and posing for a photo shoot minus Spiderman costume. Nicole in full focus. Spiderwoman? And about to ring the bell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KmivFbTTM Some climb as a form of exercise as in sports but others are extreme in nature. They do solo climbing without ropes, gears or safety equipments and scaling great heights. Then there is another form of the same but done at great speed in climbing and then jumping off a thousand feet dangled by a chord. Hold your breath as the actions unfold. There is no margin for error as one slip and you are dead. Clim...

Sometimes you hear people say that they learned much when travelling. Well, if you see people suffering in some countries or how simple their life is or how others do things better and gained a sense of that balance, understood their culture then you have learned something. Otherwise, you will learn much more by watching Discovery or National Geographic channels. Leave me out of itinerary travels, those that jam-packed you with 20 places in 10 days with a value for money package (value for money does not mean cheap). Actually, sometimes a holiday can be more stressful than normal days. You may have no alternative when visiting a country where you can't read even the street signs or moving around is just too costly. I prefer being a bum and basically doing nothing for a break and perhaps the only great things about holidays or a vacation means that it is the only time where the whole family are together doing the same things - no computers, games, face book, etc. Then, the othe...