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A friend sent this link to me and I thought I'd share it with you all. I've always wanted to take a hot air ballon ride but this reminds me of a cartoon character lifting into the sky while holding on to party ballons.
I had a hot air balloon ride once, and it was incredible. This looks like an order of magnitude better. Nifty.
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For anyone who hasn't read it (you really really should read it if you haven't), there's a great kids book by William Pene Du Bois -- "The Twenty-One Balloons" -- that's got lots of great balloon inventions, and one that's mentioned in passing is how kids do something like cluster balloons -- like, they grab a balloon that has, say, 40 pounds of lift, and go running down a street, and can make great big leaps thanks to the balloon -- go sailing for a block at a time... of course, one kid who's too small grabs a balloon that's too big for him, and he sails away and has to grab a church steeple before he flies up into the sky...
Always wanted to try that! I wouldn't want to actually do the cluster balloon sailing up into the sky thing, but I'd love to get enough lift from balloons to do the running thing... Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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From a link at the website punwit posted: http://www.parabounce.com/ -- you can wear a 22' diameter balloon inside a huge dome, and jump up to 125' inside it... ooh...
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Oh! You and me both, punwit! On my list of "things to do before I die" -- taking a ride in a hot air balloon is #1 (followed by several similar things, like those personal aircraft things...)
What a neat link! I have never heard of this cluster ballooning before -- that really sounds like fun!
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