podcast #7: The Day of the Classics

I like to fly.

And for me the most enjoyable way of flying is going on a cross country flight in a glider.

Curiosity, challenge, adventure, tension, fun, satisfaction,… a lot of stuff comes up, happens during such a flight.

Obvously there’s a lot to talk about over beer(s) after landing.

An interesting aspect of this talking is that sometimes facets of a flight become important, at times even dominant, which have nothing to do with the flying itself. This is more likely to happen when the story of a flight comes up again later, with some temporal distance, with some mental detachment from the immediate experience,

Here, in the podcast below, is an example of one such flight and my reflection on it a couple of years later…

You can download the illustrated pdf here , and the audio fans find the player of the podcast below (and a Download link, as well).

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