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I woke up today and my friends called and asked if I wanted to go to a rope swing. So I said I would and off we went, Dansky has his iPod and iTrip so we had good music on the way. It took about 30 minutes to get to our destination, but once we did, things moved pretty quickly.
The town of Alexandria Pennsylvania is a small, rural, and very unpopulated place. The scene reminded me of something out of the 1950's. We walked a little bit back in to the woods, came to the bank of the river, took off our shirts and shoes, and forged the river. IT WAS FREEZING. Once we got to the other side of the river to the far bank, we climbed a huge old tree that had a rope swing attached to it. The tree is extremely tall and the climb to the middle where you jump from is pretty high itself. Everyone had an amazing time jumping out and into the water, doing tricks, flips, and foreward rolls. It was great, cant wait to go back. I'm gonna bring the Digi Cam and do some filming I think, It would make a cool action video. "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond." - Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
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Join Date: May 2004
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LOL, when I first started reading I read that your girlfriend had asked for you to come to this pond with the rope swing, and then the "things moved pretty quickly" line... let's just say I thought you were moving into a different "genre" of moviemaking .
Sounds like a cool place though. Personally, I'd love to see some scenic high-resolution images of it more than a movie. Maybe if you added some effects in Photoshop to make it look more "old fashioned," like soften it up around the edges and make it black and white, that could be cool. |
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I agree. I think this forum needs some amateur "rope swinging turns dirty" iMovies for everyone to enjoy.
As for actual rope-swinging into freezing rivers... I used to do that during the long summers in Georgia. Right into the Chattahoochee river I would go. Although our swings were more of the variety where [the tree was growing in a spot that was a few feet above the river bank], and the rope would be tied to a branch that was just a foot or so past the bank. So we'd run full speed, jump and grab the rope in mid-air, then swing down and out over the river and drop in from a height of about 6 feet or so. Good times.... ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Cool ideas Luca, thanks!
As for the porno idea, I just need a girlfriend now, since I'm currently a single man. |
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i used to spend my summers with my cousin in colorado who lived on a ranch with a lake that had a rope but it was on a pulley that went from the east side to the west. man that was a gas, i haven't thought of that in years.
they also had a tree swing that you climbed a ladder to go off, the rope was about 40 feet high and it was great too. my cousins grandfather built the ranch during the depression and climbed the ladder every year of his life until he was around 85. he went off the rope into the lake as well. we called him PapaDoc. thanks for making me remember. good times, good times........ "What's a Canadian farm boy to do?" |
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Tree swing huh? I'm guessing you haven't lived in PA your whole life have ya? I mean not in a city of course. Not to make it sound like PA is the rope swing capital of the US haha.
There is a real neat place around here called the quarry. It was...a quarry obviously. It's maybe the width of a football fields, and length of 3 probably. The story goes that they were digging, and hit water something (natural, water main?) and it began filling up so fast that they couldn't get some equipment out, and it's still down there. As I am getting older now, that personally doesn't make as much sense, but that's the story. Regardless, it's full of water, and has like 75ft cliffs, marshy areas, and is highly forested around it now. What is weird, is that it's just a giant man made lake with wooded areas for a while, and then farm fields. Sorry, I forgot my point, but maybe I'll take some shots of it sometime and post them, it's pretty cool little area. |
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The Chicago Police don't much care for people swinging into the water off of piers and the like.
Not that I've tried that or anything Point is, I gotta head farther south to get that kind of fun, Lake Michigan doesn't work to well for that. And speaking of the lake...any friend or family member that's been with me for their first time in Chicago has always been surprised that you can't see to the other side of The Lake. Don't know why I just thought of this, but I find it extremely odd. Guess I just never even thought of that, having lived here my whole life. Come waste your time with me |
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I will say, though, That's I've always been really curious how far we really can see. Sometimes on clear days I can see the steam from the Mich City nuke plant from evanston and I swear I've seen downtown chicago from the beach in Union Pier, Mich. Of course, that's all the southern tip, so it's not like it really counts as seeing across the lake. |
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Lake Michigan doesn't work too well for any non-motorized water sport, other than turning your nads into ice cubes. |
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Re the whole seeing across the lake bit; when I moved back up here from Texas I brought my then Parisian gf with me and was anxious to show her the beautiful beaches and have a swim in the lake. She couldn't believe it. She muttered something like "This iz no a lake, it iz a sea!", which struck me as being a very good description that I'd never though of. FWIW, I do remember a couple of crisp clear autumn nights being able to see the lights of Milwaukee. So it goes. |
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Eh, I swim in it all the time. I remember one instance a few years ago when it was an unseasonably warm day in mid March (in the 70s) and so me and some friends from my water polo team decided to head down to the lake and go for a swim. Needless to say, that wasn't the brightest idea we've ever had, but it was a blast none the less.
But y'all are right, that thing never really manages to get all that warm. That's why you never take a chick to the beach, unless you're not planning on swimming Come waste your time with me |
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Over spring break, I went down to Gulf Shores, Alabama with my fiance and his family. I was really excited to be by the ocean and wanted to go swimming. Unfortunately, our school's spring break was the first full week of March and it was only in the 60s in AL. But, having grown up in Minnesota and going to school in Wisconsin, high 60s wasn't too bad. So one day my fiance and I go down to the beach and there's a fair sized crowd there, just sitting on the sand. No one is in the water. We started wading and it was COLD! But I wasn't going to let that stand in the way of my vacation. Pretty soon, I had gone numb from the waist down and decided to just dive in and get over it. Well, we ended up staying in the ocean for about 2 hours. Towards the end, a few other people, mostly little kids, followed our example and started swimming as well. The rest just looked at us like we were insane. It was a lot of fun.
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That's one of the best things about being from a colder climate, when it's "cold" somewhere else, it doesn't bother you.
I was in South Carolina about a year ago with a friend and it was in the low 70s down there. People were "freezing", it was cold for them. I ran to the beach and swam all day while people looked at me like I was nuts as they sat on the beach in long pants and shirts, wrapped in towels. If only those people ever came to Chicago. They'd die, It's always entertaining to see people's reactions when they are here to everything. A few years ago my cousin visited from Florida where he lives. It was the beginning of February and I was going out in just long sleeves and jeans. This poor guy was bundled up in jeans, a few shirts, sweatshirts, winter jacket, hat, and gloves. Come waste your time with me |
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I've walked around alpine towns at night in February in jeans and a T-shirt. No alcohol involved (only an instatiable hunger for delicious pastries).
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