Living Lifes Great Adventures: January 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

Surfs up (Everywhere!)

In my younger days, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was a surfer dude. I lived in California and was only 45 minutes from the beach and some of the best surfing anywhere. On weekends you could find me in Santa Cruz surfing and hanging out with friends at the beach, Those were the days. However, my surfing days are now over, I'm older and that California beach water seems to be much colder then when I was a kid. Plus I now live in Colorado and the nearest beach is about a 3 day drive from here. So if you are a surfer and live in a land lock area or state, where do you go? what do you do?

Well I have found 3 places you could try, 2 you can find everywhere, the 3rd is new and not even built yet, but it will be and it will be so cool. The first option is to find a water park with a wave machine. Most states have a water park, but not all parks have a wave machine. These wave machines generate a constant wave. However, most are limited in space which won't let you do to much fancy stuff and are normally very crowed, so you are limited on your time to ride.

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The second option is what they call "River Surfing". Every state has rivers so finding a river is not a big deal, but finding one you can surf can be a bit tricky. This type of surfing is fairly new and can be a lot of fun. Rivers can be a great place to practice surfing and just enjoying a day on the river with family and friends.

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The 3rd option is not really ready yet but I wanted to share it with everyone. What if I told you that there are man made lakes built for surfers, what would you think? When I heard it I thought "Yea right". Well it's true and they have one in England and they are looking to bring it to the US.Just think of it, you could surf in Kansas. I can't wait to see this one. here are a few more pictures of lake surfing.

Bottom line is very simple "Surfs up everyone", lets hang 10 dude.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Can you be an Escape Artist?

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Sometimes life’s adventures can be a challenge physically as mentally; no matter how you look at it the challenge can be a lot of fun. It’s a good bet that most of us have watched Indiana Jones as he tried to figure out a puzzle and looked for clues to escape a place or find a treasure, and what about those movies where the main character is in some kind of prison and must try to escape.

Now how many of you while watching those movies have found yourselves yell at the characters saying "It's right there!" or "the clue is right behind you" with so much passion that the people around you think you have gone crazy. Now lets be honest, how many of you while watching action and adventure movies have thought if I was there I could have escaped that faster then they did. Come on we all have and now there is a way to prove it with a new game real life game, not a video game. The game is called "The Escape Room Game".

When I first started to write this story about this game I thought it was a new thing and there was not many of them around and had only heard of the one in Nashville, TN. Well after looking all over the internet I found out that this is a growing game that's been around since 2006 and is now all over the world just look at this link: http://www.escaperoomdirectory.com/ .

So here is a quick way the game works, each room has a theme and in each room there are 2 to 8 people that are locked in that room. The idea is simple you have 1 hour to find the clues and figure out the codes to get a key that will unlock the door and let you out Sounds easy right, wrong it's not as easy as it sounds. Also just in case you were wonder, there is no real age limit. However some rooms can be pretty intense and other can be down right scary, it depends on what rooms are available where ever you play the game. Oh and by the way the one BIG rule no matter where you play is you need to do it all in one hour.

So what do you think? are you willing to try? do you think you could escape in an hour? I know this I live here in Colorado and there are 3 of these places out here so I am going to try it. look for a follow up story. Now go out and give it a try Mr adventurer.