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Article: Hanging out in Puerto Vallarta.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2003
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico - I am in the sky flitting between trees on a zip wire suspended horizontally, wearing rope climber's gear above a churning river and jungle greenery far below.
If I move my legs or turn my head to look at the ground 200 feet down, I risk throwing my body off course and slowing the momentum that is propelling me across the chasm at 35 mph.
Looking down is not a good thing.
If my momentum is arrested, nothing electrical or mechanical is available to help me reach the metal platform on a far-distant tree. I must then take my sweat-soaked palms off the short handlebar - a ...