Travel

I have an extremely long bucket list which mainly consists of countries to check out. I’m happy to report that I was able to check one thing off my Bucket List this past weekend. Bungee jumping is one of those things that I’ve day dreamed about for years now but never really “got around to doing”.

I was headed to Whistler, BC (Host Mountain Resort of the 2010 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games) for a friend’s birthday weekend and decided that it was time to take the plunge.  The jump at Whistler Bungee is a 160-ft drop towards a river and the area is surrounded by beautiful mountain views and trees. Check out the pictures of my experience below.

When I think of medieval fortresses, the first thing that comes to mind is the massive structures scattered all across Europe. I’ve actually had a chance to visit a few of them too, and I found the sheer scale of them incredible. Over the years, we seem to have lost our appreciation for massive, but beautiful looking stone structures – and I’m not talking about skyscrapers. When was the last time you heard of someone building a stone fortress?

Believe it or not, a whole team of artisans, volunteers, and all manner of historians are building a real-life 13th century style medieval fortress, and in

Most of us were too young or not even born in the heydays of the cold war but we do (mostly) know what it was all about from reading about it at school and from watching the countless cold war spy movies (which may or may not be a true picture of the cold war).  When we think of the cold war, we think of those cheesy school videos telling students to hide under their desks in case of a nuclear explosion (like a desk is going to protect you) and of course spies living large, using gadgets, and killing bad guys in movies.  Speaking of spies, if you’re a fan, you need to check out the cold war era Teufelsberg hill in Berlin, Germany.