1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Hey guys, what is going on? My name is Lily Monroe and you're listening to Escort Confessions. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Thank you so much for tuning in today. Today I am going to talk about my paragliding adventure. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:25,000 So this episode is coming out in November, even though I'm recording it in August. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,000 So yeah, I like to stay on top of things. I guess I wasn't overachiever in school, just like they told me. 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,000 But anyways, so paragliding. I went paragliding and let me first tell you what paragliding is. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders. 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 They can be lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:59,000 The pilot sits in a harness or lies prone in a cocoon-like pod suspended below a fabric wing. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:08,000 So I went, the first time I went paragliding was in North Carolina. It was in October or November. 10 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:17,000 No, it was Thanksgiving. I went paragliding and I held on to this kind of triangular type of thingy. 11 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 I still can't remember the name of it, but I think it's called paraglider. 12 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:38,000 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. 13 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 So I don't know, it reminds me of a parachute anyway. 14 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:52,000 So like if you guys seen Mission Impossible, the latest one, where he jumps off the motorcycle at the Alpine Cliffs and what not. 15 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,000 And later on he kind of cruises, so that's the other type of paraglider. 16 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So I did that and that one was not scary. I pretty much just enjoyed the ride. 17 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:11,000 And I remember the instructor, he made few turns and it was so exciting. 18 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,000 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. 19 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Because it was kind of, it was hot and it was a little bit windy in Florida. 20 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Technically it was Jupiter, Florida, where this company is and where I went paragliding. 21 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,000 So like after quite few turns I'm like, oh, I am starting to get nauseous. 22 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And I told him about it and we communicate over the radio com type of thing, like the pilots use. 23 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So we communicated with that and I'm like, I don't feel so good. 24 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 He's like, okay, okay, look in the horizon. 25 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And I'm like, well, what's going to happen if I do feel like throwing up? 26 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And he said, it's going to go on him. 27 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 And I'm like, okay, I will try to do my best not to throw up on you. So yeah. 28 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 But it was still fun. You know, I could see basically the coast of Florida. 29 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000 I could see the fish under me. I saw really big fish that looked like shark, but it was not shark. 30 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 But it was really big fucking fish. 31 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:18,000 And I could see the water really clearly, just the waters in Florida are really clean. 32 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Unlike in Savannah, Georgia, derkader. 33 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 But I could see the blue. I could see the green. 34 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I could see the seagrass or seaweed, the stuff that I love to eat when I go to Japanese restaurant. 35 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,000 But anyways, yeah, like water was clear. I could see the coast. 36 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:50,000 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. 37 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 So yeah, I mean, honestly, it's not scary. 38 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Basically, you're I kind of I know it kind of reminded me being on the plane, but an open type of plane. 39 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Like I still I said I was pretty comfortable. 40 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 I looked everywhere around me. 41 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,000 And, you know, unlike being in a plane, you don't have limited visibility. 42 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 So, yeah, and I was like, if you guys want to do it, like, just go and do it. 43 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 It's not scary. It's, you know, the instructor, like my instructor, Julio, super friendly guy. 44 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 His daughter actually goes to scared here in Savannah. 45 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So that was kind of funny. 46 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Like he kept asking me like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry. 47 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 And I'm like, boring. I'm sorry. 48 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 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. 49 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 But anyways, yeah, Julio has lots of experience. 50 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 He has 20 plus experience, years of experience. 51 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 So I'm like, yeah, we're going to be fine. We're going to be fine. 52 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Yeah. So I did not throw up. 53 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I did not. I held it in. 54 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:09,000 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. 55 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:15,000 I think I got nauseous because I did not get much sleep and because I was dehydrated, I was really tired. 56 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I did not eat anything. 57 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:26,000 So, yeah, make sure before you do any adventures, you eat, you hydrate yourself, you stay cool, especially right now. 58 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Well, sorry, not right now, especially in the summer. 59 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 So, yeah, just saying, just saying. 60 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I did take a quick cat nap right after I finished up paragliding. 61 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 So that nap really, really helped. 62 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 And yeah, and then I just kind of drove home and I was fine after that. 63 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Yeah. So, yeah, taking a nap is always a good idea. 64 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Yeah. Make sure to check out paraglide Florida in Jupiter, Florida. 65 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Let me know how it went. 66 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Feel free to email me. 67 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000 My email is book.lilymanbrow.gmail.com. 68 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 That's my podcast email. 69 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 So please feel free to use that. 70 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:18,000 And yeah, thank you so much for tuning in today and listening to me ramble about crazy adventure sports that I do. 71 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 So, yeah, thank you again. 72 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:35,000 My name is Lily Monroe and I will talk to you guys next time.