{"id":2731,"date":"2014-06-23T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2014-07-02T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:26:48","slug":"zippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2731","title":{"rendered":"Zippy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewlong\/14542797244\/player\/\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday we drove up to Wrightwood for the zipline tour. \u00a0 The tour was a little pricey, but the description sounded exciting enough and promised 3.5 hours of adventure.<\/p>\n<p>We ate at a little cafe in the town where my dad had some of the best french fries of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Our tour was delayed by about twenty minutes because two blondes (and one of their husbands) came late. \u00a0We weren&#8217;t sure, but it seemed like they&#8217;d been drinking a little before showing up, and their &#8220;rowdiness&#8221; up in the forest was appropriate for some level of inebriation.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick bumpy jaunt up the hill in a modified van we were being schooled in zipline safety and technique by the guides. \u00a0Strangely this zipline differed greatly from the ones we&#8217;d been on (Sam and I in Thailand and my parents in Ohio).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/emXhybFHQgw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" 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