When your vacation tries to kill you...
a guest post by Heather Wall of Natural Wonders newsletter
Delighted to host a fellow travel adventurer and admirer of wildness, Heather Wall of Natural Wonders newsletter on Substack! She wrote this fun essay and you can check out her Natural Wonders newsletter as well.
There was a period in my life when every vacation felt like it was out to kill me.
Whether it was too-close bear encounters or rock-climbing adventures or mountain biking wrecks that took us to the local hospital, we always ultimately survived and had great stories to share with our friends.
Years ago, my husband, Andrew, and I decided to take up diving as our newest sport. We live in the North Georgia mountains, far from the crystal rivers and reefs of Florida, but we had a trip planned to John Pennekamp State Park to see some wrecks and sharks and actual coral.
To prepare, we planned a short trip to the best diving lake in the area, Lake Jocassee in the northern foothills of South Carolina. Jocassee is a clear mountain lake tucked under North Carolina’s mountainous chin, a …
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