I am more of a spa/shopping/relax on the beach while someone brings me a frozen drink kind of person.

 My idea of roughing it is staying in a hotel with no room service.

 I don’t like bugs, I don’t like snakes and I like to sleep in a cool, dark room with a fan running.

 The idea of anything other than a leisurely hike through the woods with a hot tub and fireplace waiting at the end is not at all appealing.

And I don’t like heights. Not at all. Heights make me dizzy, sick and terrified. My palms sweat and my mouth is as dry as Phoenix in July.

So you will be very surprised to learn that, when I found out that ziplining at Adventures Unlimited in Milton, Florida was going to be an option on a press trip we took recently to Navarre, Florida I was…sort of intrigued.  It didn’t look all that high in the pictures. Well, here, watch the video.

Now, that doesn’t that look cool and easy – and not that high? I can do this, I told myself. How hard can it be? Tom was a little taken aback although he didn’t tell me until much later that he never dreamed I would actually do it. He decided to abstain, not because he is afraid of heights – quite the contrary – but so that he could get photos of this momentous event.

We arrived at Adventures Unlimited which is actually a supremely cool place and I would love to go back. They have tons of things to do, in addition to ziplining, and once we got there I realized that we had taken a canoe trip with them years ago as a family that was wonderful. You can canoe, kayak, tube down the river and camp along its sandy banks. It’s a beautiful location and the river is a clear, tea color with clean white sand on the bottom. Lovely.

But we were here to zipline.

Yikes. I'm actually doing this.

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