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| # Posted 2007-01-02 09:33:01 | |
| dyee: | Running along Revere beach must have been cool. How was the traffic along the busier parts of the route (e.g., Lynnway)? |
| # Posted 2007-01-02 10:04:01 | |
| jjcote: | Would have been shorter to swim, you know... :-)
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| # Posted 2007-01-04 12:23:28 | |
| barb: | Swimming is not yet in my repertoire.
Foot traffic along the Lynnway was extremely light. :-) It was light along Revere beach too... |
| # Posted 2007-01-04 19:57:56 | |
| jjcote: | I remember when, um, what was his name... Mike Thomas? was living at Spouting Horn and commuting to MIT. He was trying to figure out if there was some practical way to get a boat so that he could go more directly. I think he had in mind something along the lines of a small motorboat, as opposed to a sea kayak. |
| # Posted 2007-01-04 20:06:49 | |
| barb: | I remember thinking that a jet ski would be good for that commute. Which is slightly weird because other than that I've had a vaguely negative feeling about jet skis, like those 4-wheelers that tool around in the woods. Sea kayak would be classy, and maybe something with a sail.
Yeah, his name was Mike Thomas. He went off and joined the foreign service. I fully expect him to be an ambassador one day. |
| # Posted 2007-01-04 20:44:51 | |
| jjcote: | Still stationed in Guyana, Depputy Chief of Mission. And his name is still Mike Thomas, apparently. Though he appears to style himself as Mr. Michael Thomas Esq. these days.
Jet skis are the ATVs of the water, no question. Like ATVs, they can be used for peaceful purposes. The only place I've driven ATVs is at the hang-gliding school, up and down the hill to shuttle people to the top. It would be a lot more tedious without them. I routinely go to the top on foot, but carrying a glider would be a whole very nother story. I am planning to do it sometime this year, though, carrying everything to the top, still packed up (maybe two trips, going back down for the harness and helmet), then setting up the glider at the top, packing all the bags into the harness pockets, and taking off just as if it were a remote mountain launch. And they'll all think I'm nuts. |
| # Posted 2007-01-04 20:48:36 | |
| barb: | How much does the glider weigh? Better keep doing those pushups. |
| # Posted 2007-01-04 23:01:10 | |
| jjcote: | According to the bathroom scale, the glider is 53 lbs. in the bag, but without the wheels. Harness, helmet, wheels, and associated bags add another 14 lbs. Parachute and variometer (neither of which I have yet) will add something like another 6 lbs., so the whole package will come in at something like 73 lbs. Just over half the weight of the pilot. For long flights, there would also be a radio and a camelbak full of water, I guess. |
| # Posted 2007-01-05 00:03:16 | |
| barb: | 2-way radio? Might get great cell phone reception up there in the air.
What was that Hawaii O map you have? |
| # Posted 2007-01-05 00:56:38 | |
| jjcote: | Cell phones are often carried as well, although I believe it's poor manners to turn one on in the air (too many towers in range, and the network doesn't like it). Cell phones are used after landing out to call for a retrieve.
The map is called Kapiolani Park, and it's basically a lame street map of the SE end of Honolulu, using IOF colors, but without contours. Nearly the whole thing is that ugly yellow-green "settlement" color. |
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