Hey guys, what is going on? My name is Lily Monroe and you're listening to Escort Confessions.
Thank you so much for tuning in today. Today I am going to talk about my paragliding adventure.
So this episode is coming out in November, even though I'm recording it in August.
So yeah, I like to stay on top of things. I guess I wasn't overachiever in school, just like they told me.
But anyways, so paragliding. I went paragliding and let me first tell you what paragliding is.
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders.
They can be lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.
The pilot sits in a harness or lies prone in a cocoon-like pod suspended below a fabric wing.
So I went, the first time I went paragliding was in North Carolina. It was in October or November.
No, it was Thanksgiving. I went paragliding and I held on to this kind of triangular type of thingy.
I still can't remember the name of it, but I think it's called paraglider.
And this time I went to this company called Paraglide Florida, where I sat in a harness while the instructor was paragliding with a parachute type of thingy.
So I don't know, it reminds me of a parachute anyway.
So like if you guys seen Mission Impossible, the latest one, where he jumps off the motorcycle at the Alpine Cliffs and what not.
And later on he kind of cruises, so that's the other type of paraglider.
So I did that and that one was not scary. I pretty much just enjoyed the ride.
And I remember the instructor, he made few turns and it was so exciting.
I'm like, oh my God, we're going to drop, like the wind is going to catch us, it's going to turn us.
Because it was kind of, it was hot and it was a little bit windy in Florida.
Technically it was Jupiter, Florida, where this company is and where I went paragliding.
So like after quite few turns I'm like, oh, I am starting to get nauseous.
And I told him about it and we communicate over the radio com type of thing, like the pilots use.
So we communicated with that and I'm like, I don't feel so good.
He's like, okay, okay, look in the horizon.
And I'm like, well, what's going to happen if I do feel like throwing up?
And he said, it's going to go on him.
And I'm like, okay, I will try to do my best not to throw up on you. So yeah.
But it was still fun. You know, I could see basically the coast of Florida.
I could see the fish under me. I saw really big fish that looked like shark, but it was not shark.
But it was really big fucking fish.
And I could see the water really clearly, just the waters in Florida are really clean.
Unlike in Savannah, Georgia, derkader.
But I could see the blue. I could see the green.
I could see the seagrass or seaweed, the stuff that I love to eat when I go to Japanese restaurant.
But anyways, yeah, like water was clear. I could see the coast.
I could see the buildings. I could see for miles and miles and miles of Florida, basically, or of the city that I was in.
So yeah, I mean, honestly, it's not scary.
Basically, you're I kind of I know it kind of reminded me being on the plane, but an open type of plane.
Like I still I said I was pretty comfortable.
I looked everywhere around me.
And, you know, unlike being in a plane, you don't have limited visibility.
So, yeah, and I was like, if you guys want to do it, like, just go and do it.
It's not scary. It's, you know, the instructor, like my instructor, Julio, super friendly guy.
His daughter actually goes to scared here in Savannah.
So that was kind of funny.
Like he kept asking me like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
And I'm like, boring. I'm sorry.
But it is I'm not like if I was a student, like a daughter, or if I like drinking, I would love to read it.
But anyways, yeah, Julio has lots of experience.
He has 20 plus experience, years of experience.
So I'm like, yeah, we're going to be fine. We're going to be fine.
Yeah. So I did not throw up.
I did not. I held it in.
And I I feel like the reason I got nauseous was not because of the turns up in the air, like hundreds of feet up, hundreds and hundreds of feet up.
I think I got nauseous because I did not get much sleep and because I was dehydrated, I was really tired.
I did not eat anything.
So, yeah, make sure before you do any adventures, you eat, you hydrate yourself, you stay cool, especially right now.
Well, sorry, not right now, especially in the summer.
So, yeah, just saying, just saying.
I did take a quick cat nap right after I finished up paragliding.
So that nap really, really helped.
And yeah, and then I just kind of drove home and I was fine after that.
Yeah. So, yeah, taking a nap is always a good idea.
Yeah. Make sure to check out paraglide Florida in Jupiter, Florida.
Let me know how it went.
Feel free to email me.
My email is book.lilymanbrow.gmail.com.
That's my podcast email.
So please feel free to use that.
And yeah, thank you so much for tuning in today and listening to me ramble about crazy adventure sports that I do.
So, yeah, thank you again.
My name is Lily Monroe and I will talk to you guys next time.