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Dart (as in Lawn Dart) Dirt Digger Dimple Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

In the no-so-distant future you will be able to sue your family for genetic malpractice !!!!!! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

It all depends on the dates you are choosing... Right now you can find the same routing for about $350 on a single ticket with a single stop (again that's assuming at least 7 days advanced). Here is what works: 1) Take the very earliest fly available, usually 6:00am. 2) Avoid departing on Tues, Wed, Thurs and Fri ( Sat, Sun and Mon are usually the best deals). 3) Book & pay at least 7 days in advance 4) Use the alternate airports ( Chicago Midway instead of Ohare) The route you are looking for is served by American Airlines, and depends on your booking dates you can get away with $350. Hope this helps. Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

How the hell are you Clay !!!! Long time no see.... What part of the world are you hanging around these days? Look me up in Springfield, IL , I've been working there for the last 8 months. Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

NADA: ZIP : ZERO Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Chris: You will be missed. Although we had a couple of brief encounters and exchanges, it was enough to realize what a great person you are. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family. Blue Skies. Jorge Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Congratulations, well managed and executed... that's a lot of detail from a student. From my perspective, the answer is: you are writing your own incident report. Cheers George Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Oh Tippy ! We are going to miss you !!!!! Just last Saturday night I was sitting next to you, pulling the bugs away.... you looked so sad... Blue Skies Tippy.... George Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Gee, Good Point, I lost count too: 1 - Custom PIII 900 1.0GB RAM W2K Server 1- Custom PII 450 x 2 256MB W2K Profesionnal 1 - IBM TP 600x - Mandrake 9.2 1 - IBM T22 - Windows 2000 Professional 1 - IBM Transnote 600 192MB - W2K Professional 1 - Shuttle XPC 2.53GHz 1.0GB - W2K Professional 1 - PowerMAC 6800 PPC 16MB All running on an ethernet/wireless network. Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Arch ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

I love traveling ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

1. Whats your name? George 2. How old are you? 40 3. Why did you decide to start jumping out of airplanes? Drunken bet 4. Single or married? Married 5. Do you have kids? Yes, do goats ! 6. What do you drive? Jeep Cherokee, Ford Expedition, BMW 750iL 7. Have you ever done a kisspass? No 8. Where do you live? Atlanta 9. Do you have any pets? My Wife Does 10. How many jumps do you have? 550 11. What color eyes do you have? Brown 12. What is your nationality? Spic-n-Span (Born in Spain, Raised in Puerto Rico) 13. Have you ever dated someone you met off the internet? Yes 14. Favorite Movie? Shawshank Redemption 15. What do you do when you arent skydiving? Post on Dropzone.com 16. Have you ever BASE jumped? Yes, Off my Main Canopy into my Reserve 17. If not... do you want to? Nope, not again. 18. Do you have siblings? Two Sisters 19. Where do you want to travel to the most? Europe 20. What's your favorite color? Yellow, like my reserve 21. Where was the last place you flew to ( not skydiving )? Washington, DC Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

1. Well, lets see... my "chute" looks bad, my companion, who probably is tracking for his life will be around 200 feet away, ass pointing my way and reaching for his own freaking "chute". Oh wait, there must be somebody above me... Hey you, get down here ! 2. When my "companion" gets to me ? Wait a second, here I am trailing a malfunctioning main canopy and waving to my "companion", come here, I need your help ! Lets hook up ! Never mind the freaking malfunction, we will be fine ! Lets hook arms and sing "Kumbaya" ! Oh, by the way, did I tell you you are my new best friend... I know we are perfect strangers floating in the sky.... I love you man ! 3. The two of you will be floating at terminal velocity, alright ! 130MPH, my ass ! More like 160MPH if we are lucky. Oh, yeah, lets hope my "companion" did not pack him/herself a snapper, otherwise he will be bringing only my arms back to the DZ. 4. Open the chute ? Who me? I just hooked my freaking arms around the other skydiver's harness. I can't even give 'em the finger to pull ! Forget shaking hands after all this (or even patting the other skydiver in the ass), I'll be walking around like a knuckle dragging Orangutan ! 5. Your "friend" is now probably loading at 3.0+, holding to you with one hand and steering with telekenesis. If you happened to have hooked up with a tandem master doing a solo, you will only break your arms.... otherwise, looks like a leg will be gone too ! What do you mean "I" have to avoid the powerlines and other obstructions, I am the one hanging by the tendons ! 6. Again, I ain't steering ! Tell my new found friend ! Of course, now I have no arms to swim, a potentially broken leg on landing... and a small humidity problem which is about to the same "you are out of luck" job as the parachute but in a slower fashion. This is good ! I start preparing after I broke two arms, a leg and almost drowned.... Thanks for the advice! Now I realize that parachutes are meant to open and that I have a reserve "chute"... Did you mention about trying this "reserve chute" before enticing companions into becoming my new best friends? Ok, no twisting the rear or the nose. Tell that to my new friend ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

I must be bored out of my mind!!!! Apparently, some expert on skydiving operations decided to post a new set of emergency procedures! You've got to see this ! http://www.worstcasescenarios.com/scenario.htm?scenarioid=8&cache=1079818026 Well, lets throw away the SIM 2004.... this procedure does it for me... I am particularly fond of point up to let my fellow skydiver know that I am too stupid to try the reserve ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

This post doesn't hold my attention... do I have attention deficit? Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

My vote goes to Skydive Atlanta... It's my home DZ.... People are great! Management is safety-conscious and accommodating. With that said, I am a customer of multiple DZs and have no complaints about the places I've been to... but it sure is GOOD TO BE HOME! Thanks Tim & Trey ! Cheers Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Hardly the place for personal attacks ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

BEER! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Heck Yeah ! I can think of a few people who can use it.... actually the poster is not from despair.com, it's a composite using their phrase Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Thought I share it ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Yeah, perfect for coffee ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

7:7:0 Wow! Kelly jumping at ASC ! Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

Damn Clay ! I had to stay in Atlanta this weekend. We had an excellent Saturday run, not bad for having only a dozen regulars at SDA. But I sure as hell missed the crowd at the Mardi Gras boogie. The weather is getting warmer ! I might be heading to Ohio really soon ! Cheers George Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

About 18 months ago I wrote my first review of Skydive Atlanta. Well, I was wrong when I said 8.5 out of 10 (remember, I was a newbie back then). 500 jumps later (and after visiting a dozen or so other drop-zones), I can provide an unqualified opinion that Skydive Atlanta is one of the BEST DZs in the United States. Where should I start? The facilities are excellent. Huge hangar, plenty of room. The people are AWESOME, the friendliest DZ I've ever been to. You are never a stranger here. Within 10 minutes you will be introduced to all the regular jumpers (whether you are a free-flyer, belly-flyer or a one-man-hybrid flyer like me). Always a friendly crowd after-hours. Stick around for the videos of the day, sit back, enjoy a movie and a few cold ones. Landing facilities are the best I've seen so far. Not a single dip, hole, rock or stub in the landing area. This is the best groomed landing area in the U.S. Had a bad spot or pulled a tad too low? Don't worry! About 4000 acres of FLAT alternate landing spots. I had four cut-aways in 12 months at Skydive Atlanta. I landed with my main and free-bag twice and the other two times the owners had my main canopy retrieved before I landed the reserve ! How's that for service? Moreover, if you land any where near the end of the runway in either direction,(that's about 1/2 mile from the main landing area) you are pretty much guaranteed a comfortable ride back in a car to the landing area. Needles to say, if you have to land outside of the airport, you can be assured that at least two experience jumpers will be looking for you! Either the owners or another experienced jumper will pick you up! No kidding, this DZ has the most caring jumpers you can ever hope for. Aircraft? How about a screaming King Air, anywhere between 6 to 8 minutes to full altitude (that's 13.5 AGL). In over 450 jumps at this DZ I had less than 5 jumps below 13,000 ( and that's due to weather). Slow day? They will fly you in the Cessna 182 to 10,500. Safety? Extremely safe operation. Best of all, the safety mind-set permeates the DZ. Everyone is on the lookout for your safety ! The instructors are OUTSTANDING. No Sky Gods here. You get an honest input to your questions and priceless advice. In summary, I've been jumping at SkyDive Atlanta for over 18 months and miss the place every day that I am not there. The sport could use more DZs like SDA: caring, safe, friendly and committed to the experience jumpers as well as the first time jumpers. I have NEVER seen a first time jumper complain about the service or the experience. Truly a class-act! If your travel takes you through Atlanta, give it a try. If you are considering a first jump in the Atlanta area, this is the premier place to go. Cheers George

What happens at the DZ, stays at the DZ. What happens in freefall, stays in freefall. Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"