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  1. Well in answer to the last question? NO! NO WAY! DEFINITELY NOT! Even if I didn’t now suffer from claustrophobia I still couldn’t do that, I am too fond of my home comforts.
    Many years ago I did go down two of the Blue John mines near Castleton in Derbyshire and I could possibly manage those again as I seem to remember that the tours didn’t involve shuffling on my stomach, zip lining or crickets!
    But as they say ‘each to their own’ and ‘whatever floats your boat’, Seriously I’m so impressed that you did all that and enjoyed it. (I couldn’t even manage the side saddle as my only attempt at riding a horse was at a fair when I was about 7 and the man leading my horse let go of the reins to help someone else, my horse put its head down to eat the grass and I slid off ? never again! (Don’t tell Darcy! )

  2. I can’t breathe… No way, no how will I go somewhere where I have to crawl on my belly in the bowls of a cave. Breathe… just breathe. Even though Mammoth Cave is in my neck of the woods. Nope!

    I imagine that lesson on riding side-saddle was interesting. I am with Glynis, my ONLY experience with a horse was a visit to a classmate’s home and I was given the obedience school dropout. Or perhaps he was expelled. Either way… they knew what they were giving me and what happened was not pretty… I don’t want to talk about it.

    I am so happy you made it back safe and sound. That was some adventure. You will now have first-hand research should any of your characters find themselves in harrowing situations. LA! I need my salts after reading that.

  3. My initial thoughts are No Way! However…if my husband and son encouraged me I would absolutely give in and strap on that helmet (ask me about those difficult blue runs when I’m a green run only kind of girl)! And we did Mammoth Cave when our youngest was 3 and we’d go back in a heartbeat!

  4. Zip lining out in the open I could do. In a cave not so much. I have been to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and Longhorn Caverns here in Texas with no problems, but free-caving is not my thing. You can go free caving in the new part of Carlsbad, but need to have reservations etc.

    The side-saddle riding sounds interesting. I have been reading Revelation by Kirstin bij’t Juur, wherein Lizzie and Darcy ride from London to Netherfield in the snow, on horseback. Lizzie is riding sidesaddle.

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