June 2010
5 posts
Best adventure travel movie I’ve ever seen!
180 South is a a modern-day documentary that follows in the footsteps of the 1968 trip taken by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins (founders of Patagonia and North Face) from the US down to Patagonia Chile in a small VW van.
Highly recommended.
[Caption: Initial take-off and start to my heli lesson yesterday!]
Yesterday I cashed in my Groupon for BachmanAero Helicopter Lessons. Best Groupon I’ve purchased yet!
Over the course of the 30 min lesson, I was taught how to hover, ascend, descend, and navigate. It was a “hands-on” lesson and for long periods of time I was in total control of the stick performing left and...