What a great trip last week. How can it not be - hanging out in the sun (while it's snowing AGAIN at home), catching up with friends, existing at Wallaby....but the main reason for going was to check out the the scooter towing clinic.

I'm going to be tackling some hang gliding instruction and I want to do it right. WillsWing funded Steve Wendt from BlueSky to come down to Wallaby and put on this FREE scooter tow course. It's the ideal way to teach (and learn) the basics of hang gliding. You can take someone with ZERO knowledge of hang gliding, hook them up on the WillsWing Condor training glider and pull them along the flat ground just a few feet off of the ground for a thousand feet. Zero risk.

A really great interview. It's refreshing to see someone like Nicolas Cage get educated on what modern Hang Gliding is all about and want to do it. Scroll to the 3:21 mark where they start talking about hang gliding (for almost 5 minutes!)

A few of my favourite lines:

• "You are Icarus, it's probably the most beautiful thing a man can do..."
• "That guy is the coolest guy I have ever seen in my life" (referring to a hang glider pilot he saw when he was a kid)
• "And you know you are going meet the coolest people on Earth. They are going to say "hey are you going to go flying today? Let's go flying.""
• "To hang glide...to soar...to be like an eagle...to be Icarus...to me is just, just beautiful."