Downhill All the Way
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
By Abby Alten Schwartz

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I stood straddling a yellow road bike, dressed in the matching Day-Glo jacket and pants provided by the tour company, and felt the trepidation of elementary-school gym class return in all its stomach-churning glory. Only I wasn’t a kid anymore. I was thirty-four, married, and had paid good money to do this.

It was 4:00 in the morning. Earlier, about a dozen of us were picked up at our hotel in Maui and driven by van to a location 6,500 feet above sea level. We were now gathered at the edge of the dormant Haleakalā volcano and staring into its crater, which was large enough to hold Manhattan. (Keep reading)