Today was another hot day in Texas, with the temperatures soaring high above 80 degrees fahrenheit. When I awoke this morning, the skies were absolutely clear and the wind was calm. A complete opposite forecast from my weather research of yesterday. I was thrilled at the prospect of jumping the demo canopy Lescek had lent…
Having the day free to do our weekly shopping trip and perhaps attend a yoga class before the afternoon Cirque du Soleil show, we enjoyed our morning visit with Rhonda before jetting to a spontaneous class at Cherryblossom Yoga studio. There we met the vivacious owner and yogini Sara. So happy that we made the…
One of the beautiful aspects of our role as yoga instructors is the ability to extend the gift of yoga to a community of like minded souls. Lululemon offered us our very first venue of a yogaFLIGHT workshop in Calgary (Alberta, Canada), and because of this, we continue to bestow a community class to anyone…
About this time last year, we meandered our way through Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A crazy tourist mecca, but a beautiful part of the country nevertheless. I was reading this story about a Wastewater Treatment Plant spill in Gatlinburg Tennessee and couldn’t help but wonder, how does something…
Windy, tempestuous days at Skydive Houston. It feels like the whole Winter has been winded out here in Texas, and hence not much jumping has been going on. This equates to a bunch of bored skydivers. What does one do?? Below is a pictorial of some our activities and antics during the off-peak jumping times.
In the last month, there have been 2 separate incidents of where a couple of very experienced skydivers (in these incidents, Professional Instructors who have been in the sport for double digit years) collided under canopy as they approached the landing area. The tragic result: three fatalities plus a skydiver who remains in serious condition….
Today we decided to go and hang out with the Wernigs in downtown Houston. We visited: Hermann Park, Rothko Chapel with a quick pitstop at the Zoo. Rothko Chapel is considered a sacred non-denominational place of contemplation and worship open to all, 365 days a year, where the experience and understanding of all traditions are encouraged and…
Once every year, around this time, when the winter weather starts to mellow and skydivers are ready to brush off the cobwebs of a winter (for many jumpers north of California) where many are ready to rev up their skydiving libido for a new season of jumping out of aircraft. A tradition of our sport…
Okay, I’m a self-admitted pack-rat. Not just in real life, but digitally as well. My computer is bursting at the seams with information overload, and I am finding the need to organize, sort, categorize, purge and back-up. But where does one start? We bought a 1 terabyte Western Digital external portable drive recently. My intention:…
After 3 weeks in Belize, I am feeling completely recharged and rejuvenated. I have been under an extremely powerful intoxicating spell of traveller’s limbo, where I am still the same person I was at home but the setting has been totally different and I have followed my heart on this journey, exploring the potential of…