I was born in Maryland and spent my first thirty years living there, first in the Appalachian Mountains, then on the Eastern Shore, and later in suburban Washington. After a year in South Carolina, I moved to Georgia in 1977. I soon met another park ranger who worked in Florida. She was a wonderful woman who became my best friend. then my wife, and soon the mother of our three children. I spent over eleven years working in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, and on the moss-draped sea islands nearby before moving to Atlanta.. In 2007, I retired from the National Park Service and a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting resources and themes in the cultural and natural history of the United States. It was a most rewarding experience. Today, I enjoy living in the rolling hills and woods of the Appalachian Piedmont east of Atlanta.
Some folks fly in aircraft. Some fly in spacecraft. Others fly in suits with wings. Jeb Corliss is a Californian and a professional flyer who owns one of those suits. On September 25, 2011, he flew through a hole in Tianmen Mountain in Hunan Province, China. All in a days work.
Here is a video of that flight. The reporter adds little to the story, but the flight is certainly dramatic as is the remarkable landscape of one of China's most popular national parks.
OTR wonders what this guy does for recreation.
Photo: Jeb Corliss, from "Jump. Fly. Land.", Air and Space Magazine, November 2010
H/T to my friend, Virginia
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