Got signed up for this by a sweet, happy-go-lucky (got bit twice on the face by the same lizard) woman who I had 5 minutes before told my name to and who immediately added us both to the "Level 4+ Strenuous 7 Hour" trip (possibly flirting.) Overnight someone (probably went on the previous day's trip) annotated the sign up sheet with stuff like NOPE and NO WAY and IMPOSSIBLE. I was: NERVOUS. We…
the idea was, there would be 5-10 cities, only a few paragraphs to describe, and then a drawing for each one, and then put them all in a little pdf of places you could go to. I thought this would be easy but then it turned out no. In every city: There should be something that outsiders or visitors especially can do: illegal, unseemly, it did not occur to anyone to do it before now, you wouldn't do…
Everyone instructed to be modest (change behind the cars) because the cave was beneath a tree in the field of an Amish farm (from which they had kindly removed the cows.) Breakdown and then a spar where you drape one leg over and then lower, gingerly, the other to balance on top of a cairn below. A rope to get down a steep slope of mud, one by one, saying 'on rope!' and 'off rope!'. A warm river…