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Don’t Kick the Bucket on Your Bucket List Trip

Posted by Kirsten Koza on May 26, 2014 in writers' expeditions magazine | 86 Views

Don't Kick The Bucket - TheBlot screen captureTrip of a lifetime or the last trip of your lifetime?

You’ve got to wonder, when at a seventh wonder, and you see tourists being carried away on stretchers—what were they thinking? Recently I watched a woman being carried unconscious, back down the 825 stairs she’d struggled up to get to the monastery at Petra—there are about 850 stairs to the top. A mule carried me up, and my mule almost collapsed from a heart attack … Read the rest of Kirsten Koza’s story in TheBlot magazine (Wall St. New York)

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