Luke’s Blog
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Okay, so as im writing this i am sitting on a train from porto to lisbon (portugal) ..  The day before yesterday we left Filipe’s country house and he told us about this zip line we should do on the way back into the city.  It sounded like something fun to do…  Once we got there, I” saw the cable and realised it was like 1″ thick.. So im starting to wonder how long this zip line is…  It turned out to be just under 1 mile…  Its the longest zip line in the world. We paid our dues, got harnessed up… and he pulled the release cord…  The zip line basically is from 1 mountain peak to another..  so the valley in the middle is about 1000 ft. below you.  Not to mention you reach highway speeds while on the line…  It was pretty intense.  It felt like flying…  being that high up and going that fast…  The wind hitting your face hard enough to make it do that flappy thing.  Was pretty damn cool…  So then we went to his family’s vinyard and winery… drank some rare green wine… which was pretty interesting tasting..  Not to mention it was a breath taking place!  After we got back into town and checked into the hostel, I realised i left my camera in filipe’s car… so you will have to forgive me for the lack of photos for porto.  Other luke took a few i think i could steal from him.  I also think i have a video of me stopping on the zip line (it slopes down… then gradually rises back up to slow you down, then u hit a brake.)  Porto was a decent city, we did end up getting into a insult competition with a group of children on a feild trip.  Aparrently the only words they knew in English were insults…  It ended up being kind of funny… damn kids were mouthy though… I wanted to throw this 1 little shit overboard and leave his ass in the river.

But anyways, we are going to stay in lisbon for 2 days, then make your way to other luke’s grandparent’s house.  maybe we will get a few days on the beach or something… But when we arrive I will try to post this blog up..

(A few hours later)

Well we are here, and within only a few hours we had 6 differnt people offer us drugs… wow.  Pretty shitty if u ask me, makes me want to write a heated letter to someone or something!  We have not found a beach or anything yet…  but maybe i will go down stairs and ask someone about that…. i wouldnt mind just hanging out and doing nothing on a beach for a day…. just drinking beer and getting sun burned.