A good way to finish the year.

China is already sending its greetings. I am still on the paragliding site near the beach in Chile. Just got a great 2 hours flight. Sometimes life is hard,...but not today ! :-)

Then we celebrated new year, starting at 11 pm with a great dinner, then at 12am with the fireworks over Valparaiso and then party until 6am : What a night !

Unfortunately, the video of the fireworks gives a poor impression of the 15 simultaneous fireworks around Valparaiso bay.

Invited to a birthday.

That was super !

Last night in iquique

Iquique is defenetely a premium paragliding destination. Whe met great people: paulina, masha, cristian... It was already time to catch the plane. Too soon. But now we are in vina del mar. Another paradise on earth!

End of day 3... Or is it?

When i posted yesterday, i was far from imaginating that it was not the end of the day. It actually finished at 4am after a good party :-) so i will just say :end of flying day 3. One hour flight in the morning with landing on the beach after flying above the city. Magic! I put one picture here. But the best was still to come... 3 hours of dune of Palo Buce ,soaring in the best possible place: re-magic :-) we also met great fun people:masha and Paulina.Masha had her 1st flight today. I took videos and will post them when i am back.

This is a video of Palo Buce:

End of day two.

Two flights today. One of 1h45 min in thermal and dynamics. That was a great baptism for my new wing. Lively but safe. The second flight was very short. Conditions were not good. But we landed next to the place of philippe. A swiss guy who moved here 21 years ago, settled, founded a familly with 5 kids and created a little paradise for pilots. Next time we will think to stay there. Arturo made a great take off !

Serious stuff starting :-)

Arturo ready to go. We met christian a local guy who picked us up and drove us to...

Arturo kitting

We just arrived, dropped the bags and rushed to catch the evening wind in the sand dune.

Welcome to:

Landing in Dallas on Christmas day

No pictures from this, as all electronics devices had to be switched off. But that was worth a night view. So many house with christmas lights outside. Defenetly not environmental friendly, but surely very pretty !

On the way to chile...

What is on the way to Chile, via Dallas ? Grand canyon ! It is as amazing from the air than when we visited with Christophe few months ago.