I took my trailer to the gliderport this weekend and it was the first chance I had to look at the Let's Go Gliding! stickers from a distance. From over 100 feet away the lettering is still clear and the colors are eye catching. Of course I have young eyes.

Making sure people can find us is the whole point of Let's Go Gliding. The website www.letsgogliding.com funnels people directly to the SSA's "Where to Fly" applet.

I'm pretty sure I have the "glider gene" that Bill talks about but I was completely oblivious to it until I actually got a flight in a glider and was able to climb. I had read about the exploits of a glider pilot in the newspaper and thought he was a crazed lunatic for flying cross country with no engine and landing out. I had just started airplane training at the time because I thought I wanted to be a professional pilot (talk about crazy!). From there it was an intersting sequence of events that led to that lunatic taking me for my first ride after I helped pull his glider out of a field. We gained a few hundred feet and the rest is history.