Let me start by saying that bungy jumping was never a bucket list item for me.  I liked jumping out of planes and off cliffs, but had absolutely no interest in doing hurling myself off a building and trusting a little elastic cord to catch me.  Yet while visiting Queenstown, Australia I discovered that it was home to the world's first bungy location and I knew I had to go do the jump off the Kawarau Bridge. When I arrived the legendary founder of bungy jumping, AJ Hackett was there giving the Irish Rugby Team a personal tour before they all jumped. At the moment that he walked up and I got to meet him while standing on the ledge, I knew that it was fate (I was there during the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and actually ended up hanging out with the team that night!). 

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Even after that first epic jump, I had no real desire to do another until visiting Macau and seeing the world's highest commercial jump.  Again, it was more that I had to do it than that I really wanted to. After that one, the others have never been quite as exhilarating, but I have actually begun to enjoy doing them quite a bit.  After all, why live on the edge when you can jump off?

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