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BajaWarrior
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Registered: 9-27-2006
Location: Mission Bay, San Diego. Playa Hermosa, San Felipe.
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Mood: Anxious to get south
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FB, we'll be in San Quintin from the 4th of July till the 9th.
And Asuncion from the 17th of August till the 28th.
BW
By the way FB, the Serenidad I heard is closed for the hot season, remember our conversation at the Book Signing?
[Edited on 5-11-2007 by BajaWarrior]
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Skeet/Loreto
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Hey Lera!
Good to see you Postng! Hope all is well You and Yourins!
Virginia is becoming a Horse Women, I a Good Stable Boy. Been thinking about trying an Ultra Lite for some "Adventure". My brother at 77 years is
gettin Checked out so that he can fly Jets out of Santa Fe for just the Fun of it.
Sometimes my Hearts go out to these Gameboy Ipod Youngsters that will never know How to Adventure on Their Own.
Keep on Truckin!!
Skeet/Loreto
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Pompano
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Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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Skeet....has this been done?
Skeet...forget the UltraLites. The adventure you really need is to come Up North and let us get you up in a High Prairie hang-glider.
We will strap you in.. you hang there in the harness on the trailer while we pull it down the highway faster and faster...then we let out the cable
reel and 'free spool' you out to about one thousand feet...and cut you loose! Now you are on your own and can soar like an eagle on our
uplifts...maybe even all the way down to the great state of Texas.
Sometimes the pilots actually return to tell us about the trip. It's great fun.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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DENNIS
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Catch and release?
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Pompano
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Skeet, capt. mike..and others...another flyiing possible..
With this baby you never have to taxi up to the fuel dock.
A fellow once glided from North Dakota to Nebraska...lots of updrafts.
A couple of fellows once canoed over a thousand miles through a wilderness heaven of rivers and lakes..without being bitten by loose sled dogs or
raped by Innuit maidens.
Another father/son team kayaked from Winnipeg, Canada to the Amazon River delta.
There are lots adventures left to take again and again....maybe that's what makes places like Up North and Baja so great. It's where people can still
find that 'feeling' of adventure..again. And where the way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
It is not the destination, it is the trip. Sometimes it is just time to get the rig packed.. and head 'er out...
"Make voyages!----Attempt them! There's little else." Tennessee Williams
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." Tennesse Williams again (hmmm...very similar to above quote...he is trying
to tell us something.)
"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." Christopher Morley
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Skeet/Loreto
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Thanks Pomp! You have the right Idea.
The blue Glider is very very similar to the old Army TG-2- My first Glider Ride.
I had been Towing Gliders out of Bishop for about a Month when Walt Applegate told me I had to check out in Gliders. I was Hung for Life. Still can
remember going to 14,000 on a Good Thermal, looking South to Whitney, North to Mamouth, East to the White's and South to Death Valley.
What a Thrill--Like cacthing a 55Lb Bull Dorado on Light Tackle.
I live in the Test Flight Pattern of the V-22 Osprey which is Built at Bell Helio. Boy would I love to Fly one of Those!!!
"Watch Tho Airspeed, lest the Ground Rise up and Smite Thee"
Skeet/Loreto
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Pompano
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Skeet, capt. mike...you're gonna love this one.
1949 108-3 Stinson "Flying Station Wagon"...took my first ride with my Dad when I was 5 1/2..back then you counted all those 'half-years'.. cuz they
were 'very' important, remember?
He would fly the Stinson to surrounding farms and ranches to make deals on farm machinery after WWII..buying older farm equipment in the southern
states and hauling it north to sell due to severe shortages because of the war effort to build tanks, Jeeps, etc.
The interior was all cargo area in back with 2 seats up front..like the back of the 'station wagons' of the day...remember those 'woodies?'
He also put skis on it to fly in the cold, snowy winters of North Dakota and Montana. Once him and a buddy had 2 large mule deer bucks in it and
barely cleared some trees on take-off. Guess they were some of the last of the 'fly-by-the-seat-your-pants' pilots. We went some places in that
station wagon...Fun times.
[Edited on 5-11-2007 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Cypress
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Has anybody rode a pogo stick to and from the USA to Cabo?
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Pompano
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Location: Bay of Conception and Up North
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Cypress...that reminds me...I once knew a fellow who flew one of those ultralites Skeet is interested in all the length of the Baja Road.
Why not...sounds like a fun thing to do...plus you could surprise the heck out of Carmelita at her tamale stand!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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