Escape 101

I am my father´s son.  I love to work.  This means that I get a lot of things done, because when I work, I work hard and long.  However, it also means that I work to the demise of relationships, of my own health and well-being, and often times, of my own productivity.

I am learning how to balance my life and that it is ok to take breaks.  My friends down here are good about hounding me to take time off.  Last weekend, I took the day off on Friday and escaped to a town in central Chile called Pucon.  Pucon is famous for it´s still active volcano.  We went so that we could climb the volcano, see the lava in the open caldera at the top, and then slide down the snow covered slopes.  However, it rained the entire weekend and so we couldn´t go to the top.

So instead of climbing the volcano, we chose HydroSpeeding.  HydroSpeeding is essentially whitewater rafting without the raft.  It is illegal in the United States for danger.  It was EXCELLENT.  The times during the calm of the river, I was able to look around, and we were floating down a beautiful river with clouds rising from a rainforest in South America.  I felt like I was in a dream.

Anyways, in order that you see a bit about HydroSpeeding, here is the video that our guide took of us going through the river.  We look like little ducklings following their mother!  Enjoy at the link below :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB0N_0JnFkg