Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires

 

Hang-gliding in Rio

Before I bore you to death with modernist architecture, here are some photos of the day I went hang-gliding:

This is the ramp we were launched off of. It´s above Barra de Tijuca. The mountains on the left are the Dois Irmãos above Ipanema. I was hooked in with my pilot. The instructions were pretty simple: don´t stop running and don´t touch anything. The overall message was basically: don´t fuck up.

Ben and I in our gear. I´m not sure how useful the helmet is (altho I guess it would be useful in landing).

This is my glider being positioned for take-off. There were six of us and we took off like rush hour planes at La Guardia. The experience was incomperable. Truly it was like flying (actually, I guess is was flying). I didn´t take any pictures on the way down because, really, how could I capture such an experience.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.

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