Advance Iota 2
July 28, 2018
Airborne
The new paraglider is beautiful, a cheerful mix of orange, lime and white. Yes, that matters.
With a wingspan of forty-one feet, the glider only weighs a bit over eleven...
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Category: Airborne
I once tasted flight and will forever walk the earth with my eyes turned skywards, for there I have been and there I will always long to return.
The Soaring Fool Looks Skyward Again
July 14, 2018
Airborne
Circumstances and life unfitting, it has been years since I flew my paraglider regularly. Oddly enough, it was my time in Little Cayman almost two decades ago that best...
The Road to Mokala, Part 1 - Sahara Below
October 31, 2017
Airborne, Bits and pieces, Mokala Trip, On the road, Stories
Almost twenty years ago, an old man, aged beyond reason by a systematic abuse of smoking, alcohol and anger, burst into tears one day at the memory of travels it turns out he...
The Airplanes of my Dreams
April 18, 2017
Airborne, Photoblogs
This will be a self-indulging blog post, insomuch as one post can be more so than another, given the rather egocentric nature of blogging to begin with. This disclaimer out of the...
Addendum to the Karoo Parenthesis - Aerial Shots
February 17, 2017
Airborne, Karoo Trip, Photoblogs, South Africa
This will be the closing Karoo Parenthesis, the images having mostly been shot on our two-hour-long first leg of the return flight from Cape Town after the Karoo trip last...
The Flying Years - Part II
August 2, 2015
Airborne, Stories
It is unlikely that I have ever dedicated a post to anybody other than Marie and a big black cat—except a manuscript, of course, which was dedicated to the late...