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| This launch didn't go particularly well. |  | Going backwards on your butt--not a good thing! | 
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| The problem launches are always more fun to watch. |  | Tandem launches too.  Usually something appeared to not go according to plan. | 
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| Up, up, and away! |  | At one point I counted 28 paragliders in the air. | 
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| At Soe's friends house near Bellingham.  Eric is holding the cat, which has a very strange trait - it drools when you pet it.  Note the paper towel held underneath. |  | Eric, Soe, and Jeannie. | 
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| They have a beautiful, lush, sunny yard. |  | Jeannie's husband Michael carved the tree stumps into mushrooms. | 
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| Soe and Eric in front of the railroad track, right behind the house. |  | A cafe in Fairhaven. | 
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| Soe told us he used to spend whole days hanging out at this cafe. |  |  |