Thoughts of snow and soaring safaris

What have they got in common? Nothing other than I'm sitting in my living
room watching it snow and dreaming about flying straight out again. I've
flown three soaring safaris where two of us took a glider, car, and trailer
and headed out for adventure. Twice we used 1,000 feet of rope and ground
launched our LS-6a, and once we used a self-launcher, an ASW-24E. It was
more fun than you can imagine.

Here's a writeup of a 6-day safari for anyone with plenty of time for
reading: https://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=3...w=blog&id=3051

I can't find anyone locally now who's interested in doing such a thing so
I've made a deal with my wife: I'll fly straight out and she'll follow with
the trailer. Wherever I land, we'll get a room for the night and then, the
next day will be spent hiking, which is her favorite passtime. Then the
long journey home...