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YESSSS!!! ..finally my first solo flights with a paraglider.. do I have to tell you that this totally rocks!! :D ;) haha ;))

"those who know how it is to fly will walk upon the earth, looking up in the skies, wanting to go back there" - da vinci -

if you enjoyed kiting when you were a child, then you should try this! :) ..you run downhill, bringing up your glider and then run and run, off the edge, feeling how the wing is pulling you up in the air. You swiftly glide back into the seat and keep slight pressure on the breaks. You pass some air bubbles, making you swing back and forth, but you quickly compensate with the breaks. Seeing vultures circeling on the left and pull over to join their thermal, saying "hello" to your brother birds and feeling the wind pulling you gentle upwards..

man, I LOVE paragliding!! the only thing is that I never now how much I might gain or loose altitude on my path, because thermals and sinks are invisible :P just have to know the terrain and keep watching the birds.
I think that because of the correolis effect, thermals turn wether left or right, depending the hemisphere. This would also mean, that every single bird making circles on the sky turns the same direction (depending hemisphere) to turn upwind and now downwind.. have you ever thought about that? ;D

oh.. and here is a link to pictures of the lost-city-trek. A friend from France uploaded quite some of them and did a really good job! :) (haven´t uploaded mine)

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http://picasaweb.google.fr/denis.mouthon/CiudadPerdidad?authkey=Gv1sRgCODG4sD3wa3T0gE&feat=directlink
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today is a really beautiful, sunny day and I hope to get some more flights in the afternoon (did four short flights this morning for landing practise.. and works already pretty well! :D
got some rain over the weekend (didn´t bother for being in a honeymoon castle ;) and yesterday from midday to the late afternoon. Was really tired at night and crashed already at 8.30pm but then got woken up by my sweetheart at 10.30pm and got very special treat! ;D ..can it get any better??? hahaha :D
now I gonna make a soup and watch the rest of the learning DVDs.. as it looks, I got company tonight ;) hihi :D *biiiig smile*