1)  I find that the things I have watched on video versus the things  
I have actually done, have the same resonance for me.  Weeks after,  
they all seem as real and I enjoy the memories of real and ( fake? )  
experiences equally well.  I get just as intense a rush watching the  
video as being there.  Admittedly I can then go out for fish and   
chips after watching the video, while in real life it might rain and  
I could catch a cold.

2)  I have maybe 1/2 dozen near misses where life and death were  
measured in feet and seconds and in one instance by 3 inches and .01  
seconds ( a bullet by the head ).  A lot of the time I was stupid and  
lived anyway.

3)  The way I would approach the Camina del Ray walk would be to find  
out how much traffic there is each day, what the death toll is and  
from what .  Then I would go if the statistics tended to favor it and  
I would make sure if I did it that someone was walking along ahead of  
me ( at least 100 feet ahead ).  I would make sure I noted where the  
walkway crumbled and the person in front of me fell to their death.

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