The time has come, the walrus said
\nto talk of many things:
\nOf shoes–and ships–and sealing wax–
\nOf cabbages–and kings
\nAnd why the sea is boiling hot–
\nand whether pigs have wings.
\n–Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n
Although I had wanted a motorcycle at least since I was 14, I never actually got one till far too much later in life.<\/p>\n
I did, however, get into hang-gliding. I had a hang-glider and I was flying it, and I was pretty happy.<\/p>\n
Then I crashed. In a major way. The only helicopter ride I’ve ever been on was when I was med-evaced to the hospital that day.<\/p>\n
After I healed I repaired the glider and went back out several times to fly but each time it was the same frustrating thing: I would get up early, load everything into and onto the car, drive a good distance, set up the glider and haul it up some hill, and then wait all day for the wind to be right. But the wind was never right. So I would break it all down, load it back up, and drive home, having never gotten an inch off the ground.<\/p>\n
Can you say frustrating?<\/p>\n
Then one day I got the idea to sell the hang-glider and use that money to buy a motorcycle, where as soon as I would throw my leg over the bike I’d be doing what I came to do. And that’s what I did. The rest is history.<\/p>\n
Well now someone has combined these two avocations. Watch this amazing video. Yes, he’s using a para-glider, not a hang-glider, but same difference. I was very interested to see his landing, because I figured that would be the really tough thing, but he pulled it off nicely. The ideas some people get!<\/p>\n