Bob Timmermann:  

My biggest surprise is that, in High School, I never expected that my life would be as amazing as it has turned out. I've always been a pretty quiet person. Most people who do not know me well wouldn't guess that I've jumped out of airplanes, rode freight trains across the Arizona/New Mexico desert in the middle of the night, given The Shining Path a chance at me, spent the night in the Pocatello freight yard taking pictures, done three weeks jury duty on a gang murder trial, flown in a glider plane over Boulder twice, been up in a hot air balloon, done 28mph on a skateboard and 53mph on a bicycle coming down Slumgullian pass into Lake City on a road with more potholes than the moon has craters or jumped off a 65' cliff into Blue Mesa Reservoir. Now I've started taking flying lessons. Vacation this year has me landing in Panama City, Panama and leaving from Bogota, Colombia. I was planning to get to Bogota by bus and meet people on the way. Nobody ever mentioned "The Darien Gap" to me before. Apparently there is a 100 mile stretch of Panama at the Colombia border where ...Expand for more