Florida groove

I came to America, being very happy, that my friend and relative John stopped at Philadelphia airport and met me there for only 15 minutes. I had to move on for the plane to Orlando. Coming to the States is not a piece of cake, big lines of people waiting to come in, and then police is asking all this questions, not to mention they took my fingerprints. For a moment I felt like a criminal. But I forgot everything when I came to the place called Wallaby ranch. It is made and designed for hang gliding. First night the box of beer was in our way, so Oliver and I tried hard to destroy it.

In the afternoon I did my tow. I have to admit I was scared. As I just did my towing licence in Forbes and my instructor Peter wasn t here. It was easy at Wollaby too. Boys helped me a big time and I had a nice almost two hour flight around the ranch.

Florida iz zraka

L amore 

Next days were very windy, so I didn t  find courage to tow, but Oliver took me to Gatorland and Disneyland downtown. Like in a second week finished and I was already on the way to Florida ridge hang gliding competition.

I am staying with Spanish team, appreciating my poor Italian knowledge, Spanish is quite similar, so we have lots of fun communicating . Tximo, Rubio, Pedro and Claudia are all super fun to be with.  First competition day it wasn t flyable, so we went to see alligators. We were at the right place and the right time to see two alligators making love. That’s why I was showing my new alligator porn movie to everyone at the headquarters.

Retrieve day was easy. Jamie landed me her Nuvi garmin and I found my boys very fast. We had two hours drive back to our cabin. Claudia didn t fly, because she is also new one in towing and the wind was very strong, so she prepared very good dinner for us.

Stric iz Clevelanda me je cakal na postaji v Philadelphiji. Imela sva samo 15minut da spijeva kozarcek vina, nato sem se morala vkrcati na letalo za Orlando. Na meji v Ameriko te temeljito izprasajo in celo vzamejo prstne odtise, kar mi niti najmanj ni bilo vsec. 

Prvi teden sem prezivela na Wallaby rancu. Prostor je ustvarjen samo za zmajartvo. Noro lep plac, s super ljudmi. Vsak dan kuhar pripravi zajtrk in kosilo ter te povabi tako da pozvoni na ogromen kovinski zvon, ki je obesen pred jedilnico. Zvonenje odmeva po celotnem rancu.

Naredila sem samo en polet z vleko. Izpit za vleko sem naredila dva meseca nazaj v Avstraliji in moram priznat da me je bilo kar strah. Ko sem pridobila dovolj visine je ratalo zelo zabavno. Stebri so bili veliki in so odpuscali napake. Tako sem krozila okoli parka in si ogledala mali delcek ravne Floride iz zraka.

V petek sem zapustila zmajarski paradiz in se preselila v nov, ne tako prestizen a vseeno paradiz. Na tekmo ki se odvija na Florida ridgu..
Prvi dan ni bil letalen in s Spanci smo se odpravili v dezelo aligatorjev. Imeli smo nenormalno sreco, saj mi je uspelo posneti dva krokodila ki delata mladicke. Ta posnetek je postal totalen hit na zmajarski tekmi, saj vsak dan pride nov clovek, ki hoce imeti posnetek "Amore de crocodilo."

V petek smo se odpeljali na tekmo na Florida ridge. Nastanitev sem dobila pri spanski ekipi. Vceraj so imeli prvi tekmovalni dan, moji piloti so bili zelo blizu cilja tako da sem jih hitro nasla, nato pa dve urice voznje nazaj v naso koco.