Hang Gliding

  Joe and Byron are training to hang glide, so their pilots let them fly solo for a bit.  It lasts about 15 minutes, with a landing on the beach, so if you screw up on the landing, you wont hurt yourself too bad. After the hang gliding, we pre-partied… Hang Gliding

Yesterday I went hang gliding. The original plan was for an afternoon of sightseeing, but unfortunately Evelise (a friend of my portuguese teacher Marisa) couldn't escape a family gathering until later. So on the hop, as I saw them getting into the taxi to go, I joined… Hang gliding

When the glider was ready, the pilot had me strap on a crash helmet and gave me a few rudimentary instructions about hang gliding. Even though I’m not Catholic, I genuflected and mumbled, “Madre de Dios”, to the great amusement of my pilot. He then buckled us into a web - like contraption which positioned me behind him and left our arms and legs free. Since we were… Birdman

…booked a city tour that took us around a few of the more popular sights: The beaches of Copacabana & Ipanema (and where you can hang glide right on to the white sand), Sugarloaf Mountain (awesome views over the whole city) Corcovado & Christ the Redeemer, Maracanã Soccer Stadium (with the Pele footprints), scoped out where we will be parading at the Sambódromo, then finished at the Metropolis Cathedral… Sights of Rio

So we didn't end up staying in buzios. Ben and i got trashed our one night there, and just hung out in this bar talking philosophy, which was fun. The enxt day was really jsut a day of traveling, going back to rio. The… Rio Part 2 -> hang gliding