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    Escape From Kootie Beach


    The Hordes on Kuta Beach

    We knew it would be this way. Melody remembered this place from her last trip. But, it’s hard to describe the sheer wrongness of Kuta Beach until you experience it. Puerto Vallarta10 gets close. It’s to the tenth power because there are some many more people, so much more crap for sale, vendors are pushing the stuff on you so much harder. It’s hotter, the streets are tiny and claustrophobic. There’s an unbelievable amount of penis paraphernalia and t-shirts that beam mantras like “Up the Bum No Babys” (misspelling intended). Oh, and did I mention that when you are walking around there is this constant nagging feeling that you are about to get hit by a motor bike? My biggest fear in our 1.5 days here has been that I would get hit by a motor bike driven by an Australian. That would make me really mad.

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    Indonesia Pre-Party


    Melody Ready To Launch

    We are about to shoulder our gliders and head to Indonesia! We’re both done with school and almost ready to go!

    We each have 60-day visas in our books and about 20 words of Bahasa Indonesia in our brains. Hopefully more Indonesian will come over the course of the trip.

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    A Summer in the Sky

    Two months of paragliding in British Columbia, Canada

    Here is just a taste of the stories from our summer paragliding trip to British Columbia. We headed up there to do a lot of mountain flying and develop our thermaling skills. We certainly accomplished that while meeting a whole bunch of interesting folks and having plenty of whacky experiences along the way.

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    Blue Rock Twitter List

    These are the intructions for joining the Blue Rock Twitter Group. This group is set-up so that pilots that are flying Blue Rock can send out conditions updates and comunicate about fying at the site. To set yourself up, follow the directions below and you will be able to send updates to the group as well as recieve others updates as SMS messages on your cell phone!

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    Flying Above the Jungle: Yelapa Trip Report

    After three days of holiday travel snafoos, we arrived in Yelapa. Sati and I were in love with this town from the first moment.

    On our second day, we wanted to fly. In the morning, we walked a minute or two down the main cobblestone path to Alan’s house. He is one of three local pilots who gives tandem paragliding rides and he also offers visiting pilots site intros and a meeting spot for rides. Ten of us piled into a little Toyota pickup and headed up to Tapa, the top launch. We wound our way up a bumpy dirt road under a lush canopy and out onto the ridge high above the beach.

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