“It’s funny how falling feels liking flying…for a little while.”

On the drive back from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, I chose to ignore the sound advice from those at home, and I went bungy jumping.

It’s not something I consider a life-long dream, but I have wanted to do it for quite some time and the opportunity just seemed to present itself. The world’s highest bungy jump is located about an hour away near a town called Tsitsikamma. I thought to myself, if I’m ever going to bungy jump, I might as well go big and do it right.

And thus, I jumped off a bridge into a gorge like a spider monkey being chased by a tiger off of a cliff. I don’t really feel like there are a lot of details to share here….

In a nutshell: It was completely amazing. The best way to describe it is in those moments of free fall you feel completely alive. All of your senses become intensely acute. You can feel each beat of your heart, you can hear the air leaving your lungs…..you just feel alive.

In fact, I wish I could wake up and jump off a bridge every morning before my morning cup of tea just to remind myself, it is so freaking great to be alive today.