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Most of my day was spent at “The Office”.
My home office that is, I read through and checked all the final quotation and insurance paperwork for moving the car from South Africa to New Zealand. Printed, signed, scanned and sent everything off, so there is absolutely NO turning back now. Still figuring out ways to determine the…
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Packed my paragliding reserve parachute.
After “airing” it out overnight, it was time to get it all back in my harness, It is all part of maintenance, recommended yearly if you did not need to deploy your reserve. So after pulling it all out yesterday (Thanks Clint) and airing it overnight, it was time…
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Digging my hole & digging my way out.
Yes, I am owning this one, Sometimes I just can’t help it, and I inevitably get into a hole that I dug myself… to continue digging. It started on Tuesday, continued yesterday and now here we are today. Ugh… Lots of thoughts and feelings about if, but’s and maybe’s. …
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A small window to fly at Taylor’s Mistake today.
After lots of parawaiting I need to add, There was (what turned out to be an extremely) small window to fly at Taylor’s Mistake today. Sorry no photo’s or video’s of/from me, it was really tiny. The flight plan was pretty much: 1. Takeoff, 2. Climb quickly before heading…
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The Te Araroa is calling.
No excuses, I am going back on the trail in November, Someone, lets call her a “friend” of a Emily’s, sent me a link to a podcast from Radio NZ. Perhaps she also reads my blog, if so… you know who you are and thank you. Especially after yesterday,…
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My Blog – Looking back on the past 5 months.
Reminiscences after writing “Wow, this is post number 150 too” yesterday, I have been thinking a lot after writing my 150th post on this blog yesterday. Time really flies past all of us if you do not pay attention and make a conscious effort everyday to make the most…
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Updating this site.
Yes, it doesn’t look like much, but it still takes a fair amount of time keeping all of Floating Phil up to date, I spent most of my day behind the computer, updating this site, getting thing ready to update on YouTube, searching for a couple of other things…
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