People who have money running out of their ears tend to taunt life and walk the limits of its offer. The ultimate challenge is to do things over the edge! Silly, but a portion of the top level rich & famous considers this very serious play. Forbes Magazine recently came up with the Forbes 11 Luxe Extreme Excursions and it blew my mind just watching how people who seem to have everything there is to own would put their lives on the line…just to achieve their over the edge dreams.
#11 HALO jumping: This is a high altitude/low opening aerial jump that costs just $2,500.00 per person. Ripcord, anyone?
#10 Super Boat Racing: On the Hudson River in New York, NY. Catamarans race at 140 mi/hour with a catamaran costing $2million!
#9 Underwater Flying: This sub-aviation experience lets you use a joystick to maneuver your toy, which costs just over $2million!
#8 Helicopter Over Volcanoes: Helis without doors allow the adventurers face to face inferno encounter with gurgling volcanoes in Hawaii.
#7 Shipwreck Diving: There are 7 sites in Grenada, the Caribbean, to relive history and marvel at the magic of the marine life.
#6 Go Weightless in Las Vegas: Experience Zero Gravity in a parabolic flight. Great for teambuilding at $160,000.00 per group.
#5 Racing in Arizona: Enroll in Bob Bordurant’s Racing School at $5,000.00 per person. You will at least know defensive driving.
#4 Shark Cage Diving: Do a five-day dive in Guadalupe, Mexico, or in San Diego, California. Just those flimsy bars will protect you from the Great White’s jaws!
#3 Singita Game Lodge: The Singita Camp in South Africa sits in the Kruger National Park where one can find the Big Five: lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and hippo (the hunter’s fave targets). The camp has bungalows with indoor/outdoor bath facilities, massage, food, wines, as well as beauty parlor amenities like manicure, pedicure, waxing, etc.
#2 Nimma Bay, Canada: The wilderness of British Columbia conquered – glacier trekking, white water rafting, or salmon fishing can all be done in a day via helicopter. What’s more, before 9am and after 5pm, the ultimate luxury at your command.
#1 North Pole Cruise: The cheapest cabin costs $30,000.00! But you can claim with smug certainty that you are on top of the world. When your boat reaches 90 Degrees North, champagne bottles pop as everyone toasts to this achievement. Cruise is on an ice breaker boat from the remotest part of Russia, breaking through glaciers in the Arctic Sea. Great sightings of polar bears, sea lions, and rare Arctic birds make for an experience of a lifetime.
There you are – the top choices of the ultra rich & famous for their over the edge adventure. Do you share some of these thrills with the privileged ones? Have you harbored secret yearnings to do some of these? Did they, after all, ever occur in your speculations?
Well, they are there for the taking and anyone can have the luxury of dreaming, don’t you agree? So, dream on…