"The bus has forgotten me hasn't it" I said to the reception desk lady of La Suisse Hotel.  "Bus??" she said with her head tilted to one side and a puzzled look on her face.  I gently lowered my head to my hands and whispered "for the love of god". A couple of garbled and frantic telephone messages and 45 minutes later a man shows up at the hotel and ushered me to get on his motorbike.  Before I could pro...

A skydive over lake Taupo, Snowboarding in New Zealand, walking Franz Joseph Glacier, Arriving in Peru in the middle of the night....and for all the scary things I've done, finally I have been defeated. I found something, that no matter how hard I tried, I simply could not do. I tried to find a Pro (that's a professional OK!) whom I could simply 'slip in behind' but alas, it wasn't meant to be, not tonight, I was NOT going to be able to cross the road. I ...