Everyday Minerals | Everyday Naturals

I decided to go backpacking with a few friends. We just made a spur of the moment decision so the trip was spontaneous, filled with some surprises and fun. There was no schedule to follow.

We did not arrange for accomodation when we left, and it was the holiday season in the country that we visited, so there were minimal rooms and we nearly ended up sleeping at the railway station on the first night. But fortunately, we eventually found a room.

A couple of days later, it rained so heavily that some of the roads were flooded. We had to make our way back to our accomodation on foot and it was the longest 2 hour journey (it felt like that at the time!).

But despite all the hiccups, we had a good time with the friendly locals and wonderful meals everyday. Planned vacations may save me a few headaches, but somehow, it's the unplanned trips that leave the lasting memories.

the craziest thing i've done during my summer vacation was quite a while ago.. i think 3 or 4 years back when i was in high school. after being completely inspired by the "free hugs" video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 by Juan Mann.... i was determined to do my own Free Hugs Campaign at sydney CBD. I told my friend, she said it's crazy!... but nonetheless she went along with it.... we went to the local newsagent, bought a black texta and a big piece of cardboard and wrote "FREE HUGS". The following weekend i decided to carry through with my plan, we took a train into the city, we were quite nervous as we got off the train and walked through a tunnel with hundreds of other passerbys... my friend hesitated and asked if i still wanted to do this.. I just toughened up, held up the sign above my head and screamed out "FREE HUGS... ANYONE??" in the middle of the tunnel... a few people looked at me strangely, giggled and walked past. it felt like the longest minute of my life holding that sign above my head... thankfully, two travellers walked towards me with arms wide open.... and the rest of history. We spend the whole day going around the city giving out free hugs.. we ended up giving out 100 hugs in total. it was regarding to see people happy and smile

Hmmm...This is a hard one. The craziest thing that I have ever done on a summer vacation is gone down a four foot waterfall in an inner tube. It was totally insane, I felt like I was going to die but obsiosuly i didnt

This may sound totally weird but the craziest thing I have ever done is finding my first love. I was on a school trip over the summer in Italy and I met this really sweet Italian boy. We spent the whole summer together, I would tell him where he would be and he would meet us there. My supervisor got so upset and almost sent me home but I talked her into letting me stay lol. She must have thought that I was insane but I was my first love. I know that it is something that sounds like it came out of a book or a movie but nope, it was my life lol. It is definately something that I will remember for the rest of my life.

My vacation craziest dating a few years ago ...
I was 22, and two friends we decided to take a trip to Italy, aimless
Only a small suitcase each, and we left without destination
Often we found ourselves having to sleep in the car, because the hotel had no more seats left and we knew where to go or to stay together that day known to women who lived in the area and gave us a couch
By day the sun and sea, and the evening disco
Every day a new city and new people to know
And every day a new adventure .... like when the car after parking near the beach, and be going for a walk, I forget where it was on our return!
We walked for miles on that waterfront, spreading the word to help us, until one boy did not tell us where he had seen a car like this!
We were already desperate and already thought of having to sleep on the beach, since money and documents were inside!

Sure, hire a tour operator gives more security, but the fun and memories of that holiday will follow me forever!

this one is pretty gross. I would have to say that the craziest things I have done is eating a Century Egg. It was the grossest thing ever and it made me so sick but I got $100 out of it

is conquering my fear. Since I can remember I have never gone on a roller coaster because I was always too afraid to go on one. Well I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain and rose Riddlers Revenge!

we were staying at this little river front hotel when I was younger. It was totally cute.

Well my friends decided that it would be a good idea if we tried swimming across the river. We thought it would be a hoot. Little did we know that the current is pretty strong. Well we starting off fine and when we got about a quarter of the way down we realized that the current was strong, we egged eachohter on to the other side. When we got there we could not see the hotel any more and had no idea where there was a bridge so we swam across to get back to the correct side. When all was said and done we had to walk back almost a mile to get back to the hotel. Our parents were so upset and asked us why we did not turn back and we just told them that we did not realize how strong the current was until it was too late.

On a summer vacation, my hubby and I decided that it would be fun to try to pick eachother up at a local club

The craziest thing that I have ever done on a summer vacation is gone to Las Vegas. It is so incredibly hot an dry. It was terrible.

The craziest thing that I have done on a vacation is one vacation where we had not idea where we were going to to. We decided to pack up some food and clothes and just drive. We drove and drove and it was so much fun. We stopped in at all of the truck stops, say the amazing country side and we ended up driving down old route 66 It was kind of an odd vacation but it was great!!



I only wish that we could have seen it back in its hayday

It is not very crazy but the best summer vacation I had was when I was in College. A group of us from church went down to Mexico on a Mission Trip.

We spent time playing with the kids and building some new homes. It was amazing. There was one little girl that ran around saying "que bonita" to all of us girls. She was suchh a sweet little girl. I am so happy that I had the opportunity to go down there

Talking about the nude trend, I once jumped off a local cliff naked at my cottage with some new friends late a night. It was fun, scary and exciting! After we had a fire on the beach and had some ice cream. It's an adventure I would never forget.

Well it might be boring but I love to go out boating on the Lake... especially Jobbie Nooner (which is known for drinking and baring yourself for beads) I'm part of the drinking but there is no way anyone gets to see anything under my swimsuit!!! Last year there was soooo many boats all parked around the island: Here's a few aerial pictures I found on a web page of the event a few years back (all of the little white things are boats!!!!)

Last summer was one of the craziest summers, but I loved it! After going through some pretty stressful situations in my personal, I booked a one way flight to Puerto Rico. A day after that, I was on my way. I was suppose to take a layover flight to Washington and somehow ended up in Philly because the flight broke down. lol Somehow, it was so great and refreshing not knowing what would happen. I spent several hours exploring the Philly airport (which is quite big!). Anyways, I eventually made it to Puerto Rico and made friends with the guys seating next to me on the flight. During my stay in the island I just decided to let go and try a lot of new things. I reconnected with old friends there (I'm from PR originally) and went to Jazz festivals. Tried new drinks and somehow ended up at the Hilton hotel drinking piña coladas. haha It was great. I did come back, but it was quite a self discovering trip. I let go of control and just went along with the ride. It was a blast!

I was 19 when I took a vacation trip with my family to the Grand Canyon. While there my dad stopped at one section to see the view where a lot of people were stopped. My sister and mom stayed in the car, while my dad and I got out. We saw that there was a huge bolder shooting out of the canyon that people were climbing down to, to walk across it. That's when I got a wonderful idea to do it myself. For some reason my dad must have been having a chemical imbalance cause he thought it was a wonderful idea.

As he helped me down the side of the cliff I slipped a little. Had it not been the tree, shooting out of the side of the canyon, that stopped my slip it would have been the end of the story. The path widened as I made my way of over to the bolder. I waited for one tourist to come off the bolder, so that I could walk onto it. As I walked across it I was fine...always being a little adventuress I had no problem doing this. UNTIL, I crossed a crack that was near the end of the boulder. When I put one foot over the crack suddenly my perception of the canyon changed. In an instant, I could see that I was ascended from the canyon and the hight from where i was standing to the bass of the canyon became even longer. My knees buckled, I couldn't move. I found myself beginning to reach for the ground when, I told myself "I could do this." I turned towards dad, for him to take a quick picture and then very slowly and shaking I made my way back. With my sweaty hands I grabbed my dads palms ( which, I found were sweating as well) so he could help me climb back up the cliff. When I got to the top we looked at each other, took a sigh of relief at the same time, and in a scared response my dad said, "Don't tell your mom!!!!"

Needless to say....I have never been the same with heights since then

Well after i graduated back in well a while ago.. my friend and i went off to Israel for a holiday.. we were both sooo poor so we worked cash in hand sometimes to get by.. and would also hitchhike around.. all went well until one time we hitchhiked from Eilat to the Dead Sea.. but they guy could only take us to a certain point before he turned off for Jerusalem.. ok we thought this is great, then we can hitch another ride to the Dead Sea. Wellllllll....
We got dropped off in the middle of the desert!!! next to a bus stop.. and no cars came for aaages@@@ 2 young girls in the middle of the israel desert mountains, hot sun, in out bikini tops! Not cleavh right!?
Thankfully some nice police car came up and gave us a right telling off, telling us this is where truckers pick up tourists and they go missing etc etc.. but they helped us out and got us a ride to the Dead Sea. Which was sooooooo nice and relaxing after all that! phew! not recommended. Silly girls

The craziest thing Ive done was two summers ago, me and a couple of friends were busy with summer school and work. We couldnt go anywhere crazy for our summer vacation. So one night we decided to play poker. At first we were betting money, then it got pretty boring. Therefore one of my friends suggested that whoever lost had to take a shot of the Asian fish sauce we have in the kitchen. And I happened to be the loser, TWICE. So I ended up taking 2 shots of the fish sauce. Ughhh it was the most awful thing Ive ever tasted. The smell and taste lingered in my mouth the next couple of days. And I'm pretty sure my face was bloated the next day due to the excessive amount of sodium intake.....

The summer after I graduated from high school, I went on a road trip with my older sister. It was a blast. We drove from Chicago to Ft. Lauderdale. And we took a ton of side trips along the way. Mainly so we could see all the tourist stops, that we always passed, when we went on car trips with our parents as kids. Not the craziest thing, but it was something we had talked about doing since before either of us could drive.

I have a terrible fear of heights, so when one summer I went repelling off a 300 foot high bridge it was absolutely crazy for me, and an amazing feat also.
When I am at great heights my body stops functioning it wont work my arms and legs just will not move, but I was actually able to do this and it was amazing. But I do still have my fear of heights.

It's something so silly, but for someone who has a fear of heights and that feeling of weightlessness.. then going on the Behemoth in Canada's Wonderland was crazy enough for me last summer! The anticipation of the drop, the clickety and clanking of the train going up the tracks.. still gives me goosebumps!!

the craziest thing i have ever done on vacation is this. i went to a concert of one of my favorite bands who happened to be visiting from the uk. it was very cool because they had started talking to me mid way through the night and invited me to their show the next night so i went, and then the next night, and i ended up going on the rest of their american tour (not like a groupie, like a friend)
it was a summer to remember and full of super fun experiences that i will never forget.
i actually still talk to them and when they come out on tour go to visit with them.

On vacation in Hawaii I was Suba Diving with my friend when all of a sudden we were surrounded by sharks. At first I got kind of freaked out but then I realized that they were just being curious and we ended up swimming with them for about an hour. It was really cool!

Two words:
Bungee Jumping.
SO AWESOME!

The craziest thing I've done in summer vacation must be the Asia trip with my virtual friends! Last summer I went to an Asia trip with my virtual friends - who I've never seen before and only one of them I've met her twice before. Sounds very dangerous, isn't it?

The only reason I agree to go with them is that we've chat on the forum for over five years, from that we knew each other well enough and decided it's a good chance for us to have some fun for a week. Not only we have to fly over (since we all live in different countries and only TWO of them are locals), our goal is to see sunrise while we stay on the mountain (for two days and one night). However a typhoon just hit the mountain and cause failure of the very last part of mountain railway - which we managed to have someone pick us up from the hostel we booked.

This may sound crazy - travel with people who you never met before and stay over night on the mountain which just hit by typhoon, but since we all know each other very well (and most of us are GIRLS!), we did have a great time!

Summer 2009 - The Craziest Holiday of all My life!
Me and some closest friends decided to take our holidays in Thailand, that is one of the most beautiful and particular places in the world, so different from Italy (where I live) and from my culture
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We visited places like Bangkok, Singapore, Bali...
This is a photo my friend took in Bali


Oh well, let's go on. I wanna talk you about crazy things!
Thank to my friends I've done lots of experiences I, sincerly, wouldn't ever do in my life!

I could tell you something I've done (force to my friends) like Ride an Elephant in the Jungle (OMG It was a HUGE animal!), canoing in Khao Sok Park (drifting!), Dive from High Rocks.. etc...

But The most Crazy thing, the craziest thing I really can't realize I've really done is....



Oh yes, EAT BUGS!!!!
In Thailand there are lots of "kiosks" that sell these "delicatessen"..
And a little bit for challenge, a little bit for curiosity, and a little bit for madness I decided to try these...



Oh well, I have to say that was not (SO) bad.. (maybe because they were fried, and you know that everything's fried is better!)
But I think I'm not ready to take again the same experience!!!

I wanna say thanks to my friends I think that, without a little bit of "happy insanity" your friends give to you, the life wouldn't be so precious!
Thanks Carina

My craziest summer memory is jumping out of a tiny, old airplane with the man who would be my future husband. It was technically our "first date." The airplane was so tiny that five adults could barely fit in it, and it was so old that duct tape was holding parts and pieces of it together. What was I thinking?!
It was a magical day of free-falling for 60 seconds and then smoothly gliding like a bird back down to the earth. The noise of free-falling is so loud that you can't hear yourself scream, and the silence of floating under a parachute is just the opposite--so serene and peaceful.
The funniest part of this story comes a month later when my future husband called me up on the phone to go skydiving again.
"Hi, this is Jeff." he said when I answered the phone.
No Jeffs came to mind. "Jeff who?" I asked.
"Jeff from camp." (We had worked together at the same summer camp, but I still wasn't placing who this guy was.)
"Jeff who?" I asked again confusedly.
"We jumped out of a plane together!" (Talk about making a poor guy work for a second date.)
"Oh, Jeff! I'm so sorry! How are you?"
And thus began our second date.
You never know where a little bit of daring adventure may lead. I've been skydiving about a dozen times since then, but the highlight amidst plummeting to the earth at an amazing rate was meeting my best friend.
Oh, and by the way, my favorite nude shade is Hot Chocolate. Such a pretty eye color with a beautiful pearl finish!

The craziest thing that I have done on a summer vacation is swimming with sharks. Mu hubby thought that it would be fun so when we went on vacation he signed us up without telling me. I was so scared and did not want to do it but the part of me that hated wasting money (they would not refund because "it was their policy") went. It was the wildest thing that I have ever done. It is truly something that I will remember for the rest of my life! I only with that I had purchased a good underwater camera instead of having to rely on them to take the pictures and sell them to us at a huge cost lol.

The craziest thing that I have ever done on a summer vacation is telling on Everyone that I was a rich aristrocrat from Sweden. I had the accent to boot. I got a lot of people to believe me and they gave me some free stuff which is totally cool and I was treated so different from how I would normally be treated. It was insane!!!!

The craziest thing I ever did was to get on a bus that was supposed to take me to the mall When I was in PA but I ended up lost and didn;t even get to go to the mall and took me forever to find my way back to the hotel and I went by myself. My boyfriend was going crazy wondering where I'd went!

I ate a whole box of fiber bars because we had nothing else to eat....
I wasn't thinking about the consequences

I had a bit too much to drink one night and went skinny dipping in my old high school's pool!

It was totally crazy and I still cant believe that I did that LMAO.

Once when my friend and I were still in school, we went to all of the local neighborhoods in our area and stole the "for sale" signs on all of the houses that were for sale. We ended up with about 50 signs in all so for the last day of school we went to the school grounds at 2am and put all of the for sale signs in the lawn. It was hilarious, I wish we had taken pictures. They were still there when we got to school in the morning and we rolled as everyone walked up to the school pointing and laughing at the signs

When I was in 6th grade, over the summer I had a friend of mine spend the night, we decided to sneak out in the middle of the night just to "be bad" so we were walking around our neighborhood and there just so happened to be a party that had just been broken up by the police so everyone was leaving.
A cop car drove by (I assume to make sure that the party was dispersing) And spotted the two of us and turned around. We knew we would be in serious trouble if we were caught so we ended up high tailing it down the street and down an alleyway and hid there.
We saw the cop come by and shine his spotlights down the alley but we never got caught.

About 8 years ago my boyfriend I decided to spend our summer vacation following our favorite band on tour. We had only enough money to get into the shows , get gas and buy the most basic picnic foods we could find at health food stores. Each night we'd sleep in the back of our van in sleeping bags (including one night in west Philly! ) and we'd eat our meals as picnics in parks or at rest stops on the side of the high way.

Anyway one night we were seeing them play a free show on a campus in upstate NY.
We unknowingly parked in a staff spot and got our van towed , we didn't have any money to take a cab to the tow yard and public transit was no longer running so we just crashed in a park , behind some bushes. It was so cold without our sleeping bags though that we both kept waking up .

At around 5 am we got roused by some cops who initially wanted to arrest us for vagrancy but somehow we talked them into driving us to the tow yard so we could get our van. That day we just wandered around NYC drinking a million cups of coffee to stay awake until gig time.

We got to the show earlier and started chatting with the band who by this point recognized us after seeing us the past 6 nights in a row. We told them what happened with getting towed and not really sleeping and how we had driven down from Canada to follow them on tour and they let us hang back stage and eat a bunch of their rider (yummy hummus) AND gave us each a few tshirts and records.

Totally worthwhile road trip.

The craziest thing i ever did on my vacation was:
I went to virginia beach--they had a hurricane the day before but we decided we still had to go. We pulled up and our hotel sign was in our pool. There was no electricity, we were on the 5th floor (4 girls=lots of luggage). We got settled into our room and went out that night--had a ball. The next morning we decided to go to the beach--all the others were taking too long so i told them i'd meet them there. I went down to the beach, set up my towel, and went into the water and after a few minutes something brushed up against me...I looked down and there was a dead body. YES A DEAD BODY!!!!! I had to yell and scream and wave my arms in the air (if you've never been to VA beach--the lifeguards are set up pretty far from one another). I finally got a lifeguard and they got the dead body....I had to give a police report, the news was there and when my friends finally came down to the beach they saw me surrounded by cops, lifeguards and a big tent (trying to block the body)...they freaked out and were trying to get to me but the cops had me sanctioned off......
It was absolutely the most insane vacation and experience i've ever had.

so when people tell me their "vacation" horror stories...i get to turn around and say "i found a dead body in the ocean on the first day of my vacation".

I drove across the country with my S.O. about 3 years ago to Florida. We had such a good time driving together that we may do it again this year! It was great bonding. While in Florida, we went to a gift shop right off of Daytona Beach. Inside were the cutest baby turtles that I have ever seen! We bought two to bring home with us! While at the beach, we let them run in the sand a little. They made the trip back home with us and we still have them now! They are, of course, a lot bigger, but still so much fun to watch swim around their tank! That trip plus buying turtles is one of the craziest things I've done on summer vacation! We named them Squirt & Leonardo!

The craziest thing I have ever done ever was that my boyfriend and I were on a drive and we eneded up out in the desert about an hour out, we saw a sign that said "Las Vegas 300 mi" so we thought to ourselves, LETS GO!
So we did stayed for a show and dinner and then drove back home LOL!
It seemed to pointless but we did have a great day!

Once my friend convinced me to try "Rocky Mountain Oysters"
I didn't know they were bull testicles!
they were SO GROSS!

The craziest thing i ever did on a holiday was having a crush on a much older men (i was 17 at the time) and keep staring at him. He was the busdriver of my hotel in Malta. Eventually he talked to me and i spent the evening riding with him on the bus, driving guests from and to the hotel, talking about our countries and our lives. At the end of the evening he give me an innocent peck, but it was my first kiss, so i was really excited.
Looking back, i feel really embarresed that i stared at the man for so long, but i guess that's what you do as a teenager

The wildest thing I ever did on vacation was to go Cliff Diving

It was so crazy and such a rush!
I was terrified but I did it anyhow. Talk about Adrenaline.

Once on summer vacation I had WAY too much to drink down in Tijuana, and I couldnt find my hotel again. I spent 3 hours wandering the streets of Tijuana until I finally gave up and wandered back into a bar, I met some really cool girls there and ended up going back to their hotel with them, made some new friends who I still chat with on facebook, and they helped me get back home in the morning.
It was pretty crazy being lost in another country!

Craziest thing that I did on my summer vacation was to fall in love. OK, you can say that there is nothing so special to fall in love when you are on vacation… But believe me for me it was something special. He came to my country just for one weekend for business. And the destiny decided to cross our roads. Love came like a thunder from a blue sky . Crazy thing is that at that time he lived 3000 km faraway from my home country, he had somebody else in his life and we had quite a big age difference – all the things, that me – the good girl, couldn’t neglect. I was so perplexed, my mind was saying – No! No! No!!! You can’t do it! But my heart was weeping just one word – Love! So the first time in my life I surrendered to my feelings. Six months later I quit my job and moved to live with my love. It was five years ago. Now we are married and we are still crazy in love. Each day we discover that our feelings are stronger than on the previous day. I don’t regret anything, even if I should learn other language and culture and it’s still hard for me to live far from my friends and family. It’s the love of our lives - crazy, tender, passionate and sweet love. Love, like all the love songs and books are about. Complicate, but so good!

the craziest summer vacation i had was when i was around 7, i begged my parents to let me have a tent in the garden.

i used it mostly during the day, but thought it was a great idea to sleep in the tent all night, i pestered my parents into letting me because it sounded like such an adventure.

they eventually agreed, i was given a cold beans for dinner, when i tasted when one spoonful it was so horrible, but i didnt say anything because this is what people eat during camping, and then during the night, i started hearing noises, i was sooooo scared, i cuddled my teddy bear, i wanted to go back inside the house, but stayed there until i eventually fell asleep.

when i woke up i was back in my bed, i was told that i had gone in during the night, but later on my parents said that they knew i would be too scared and they had stayed up until i fell asleep and had brought me inside.

i never pestered them again to let me sleep in the tent, but it was fun to write in my school book about my vacation, my friends thought that i was lucky to have so much fun.

its funny you mentioned nude clothes, makeup, etc, what about all the hype about venus williams in her nude underwear, i think she looks great, and its nice she is trying something different, she is bringing fashion into tennis.



now that is a cool outfit.

The craziest vacation I ever had was when we went to Mexico, We were looking to see the solar eclipse and obviously on a bit of a time schedule. We were on a very windy road in the mountains when all of a sudden things came to a grinding halt (in the middle of nowhere) It turned out that there was a wreck. between a watermelon truck and a Mango Truck. No one was hurt but there were watermelons and Mangos Everywhere and the trucks were both totalled on a 1 lane road (probably why they got into the wreck in the first place)
There were about 50 cars stopped on either side because everyone had been there for several hours already and no one could get through. All of the people from the cars rallied together and cleared all the fruit from the road (taking the unbruised spoils as a snack since we were all starving by that point) and helped the tow trucks get the cars out of the compromising and cramped mess that it was.
It was a completely bizarre experience, but nice to know that an entire mess of people from other countries could rally together to help some people who needed helping.

It took about another hour to get everything cleared but we all helped to get them out of there. Who knows how long we would have been there otherwise

My craziest summer vacation story is this:
I couldnt sleep one night and we had a boarder living at our house who also couldn't sleep.
We decided to go on a drive and ended up at this outdoor theatre.
There was a pond for this production so we decided to reinact the play and then go swimming. We were having a hoot until we saw a light in the bushes and we went to investigate and it turned out that the whole cast lived on the grounds and we headed for us to investigate the noises.
We hightailed it to the car and took off. When we were about a mile up the road we saw a police car pass us and we knew that it was about us!
we never got caught but it was a close call!

The craziest thing I've ever done during the summer was pack up my 4 little guys and drive to Disney Land for a long weekend... we were visiting my inlaws in AZ while my husband was training for a deployment (he is a marine), it was insanely hot and my kids were bored... not to mention I can only handle so much of the in laws without my hubby around (if you know what I mean )

I looked online and saw there were some great deals for last minute traveling to be had so I got everything together, rented a minivan and away we went! When my husband called and found out we were on the road he was shocked I took them, I am an intense planner and have a hard time doing anything spontaneous... it stresses me out! I will admit I debated turning around a few times... the thought of handling my boys on my own in an amusement park was terrifying, but I decided it was time to live a little! My boys will only be young for so long!

The boys had no idea where we were going and were totally surprised when we pulled up to the hotel! The look on their faces was priceless! Sure they were a little crazy at times and it could have been stressful but I did my best to relax and let go a little, just let the boys enjoy their time there. They had a blast and we all survived the trip. They still talk about the time mommy surprised them with the "funnest vacation ever".

I am so glad I took a chance and did that It taught me that some of the best memories my family can have are from times when we just go with the flow and let our hair down! And I learned to never underestimate myself... I *can* do it!