{"id":930,"date":"2012-08-26T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2012-09-18T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T19:00:38","slug":"first-descent-of-the-mekong-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"First Descent of the Mekong in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John paddling “Twisted Sister” on the First Descent of the Mekong in Tibet<\/p><\/div>\n

But Pete had already made up his mind: The river was too difficult and dangerous for the rafts to continue, which meant the trip was over! I was very disappointed, but I agreed with his decision. There was a chance that the kayakers could go on alone, but we needed to discuss it with the rest of the group.<\/p>\n

I walked downstream alone, contemplating my life and this incredible river. Even though I was definitely past my prime, I was feeling pretty good. My neck was still sore from the five-day bus ride, but the pain was fading, and my old spirit was coming back. I also knew that, between the political situation there and my age, if I didn\u2019t make it down the canyon this trip, I would probably never come back.<\/p>\n

My thoughts drifted to one of my favorite lyrics by Tom Waits \u2014 \u201cOpportunity don\u2019t knock\/He has no tongue and she cannot talk\u201d \u2014 and I tried to think rationally, while my adrenaline was pushing me to continue.<\/p>\n

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But Pete had already made up his mind: The river was too difficult and dangerous for the rafts to continue, which meant the trip was over! I was very disappointed, but I agreed with his decision. There was a chance … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,127,117,116,382],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-on-the-edge","tag-adventure-photos","tag-adventure-travel-books","tag-first-descent-2","tag-mekong-river-2","tag-tibet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}