Speaking of the East Coast Championship, we had a great time in Ridgley. Adam and Sunny (and Kristin) live in the bubble of a down at the heals private airstrip surrounded by soybeans and corn, getting by year round on their proceeds from giving tandem "discovery" flights during the season. The airstrip is supposed to be redeveloped some time in the future if the county can get ahold of it, and Adam and Sunny do manage to snag a student every now and then out of the membership of the singles clubs that come their way for a day of socializing on the grass strip.

The current airstrip owner (you can see what it looks like by clicking on the Google Earth icon above) says that the county has to find Highland Aerosports a new home if they take over the airstrip. Sunny and Adam are not holding their breath.

Jim Rooney was there and is normally there during the season. He was towing us as well as giving some of those "outrageously expensive" tandems (the ones killing hang gliding) during the weekend after the meet, but is free and smart enough to leave in the winter for the southern hemisphere summer in Queenstown, New Zealand. Maybe that explains his always happy demeanor. You can imagine what the winter looks like on this thin peninsula next to the Atlantic Ocean (think gray). I hear it involves a lot of drinking.

While he was at Quest Air Jim got himself a cheap Chinese scooter (Verruci) with the thought that it would turn into a scooter towing operation. Turns out it doesn't have the torque found on the Yamaha or Honda 50cc and can't go 35 mph, the sign that the cycle can handle this job (at least at sea level). So another course of action is required for Jim to get into the scooter tow low and slow instruction business.

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