Glad to see you dropping by. Sorry that I can't offer you a cool drink (too hard to squeeze the coke through the line), but I hope you enjoy your stay anyway. So let me just give you a quick guided tour before I let you loose.

• If your visit is for professional reasons, check out my Career History (resume). The Fact Sheet has more.
• Why on the net? These are my 10 Reasons. If this hypes you then try my Links to some wowy destinations.
• Dive into the Storyboard for some funny anecdotes of my past.
• Need technical support? My Toolbox may have the right helpers for you (i.e. checking current exchange rates, world times, convert measurements or you try the Floh way to query multiple search engines).
• You want pictures? My Photo Corner has what's passed censorship.
• If you're runner, check out my Race History.
• Yeah, last but not least meet my Boss

But that's enough now ... now it's up to you to check it out. If you like it or have suggestions then just send me a mail.

Latest News: Airborne

It is 1.5 meters long and seven metres wide with a juicy chunk of life flesh dangling below it. What sounds like the latest baiting scheme for brown bears in Upper Bavaria since Bruno passed through, is in fact our gang taking the challenge to get airborne ... on a paraglider. On the summerly Hocheck skifields in Oberaudorf, our gliding instructor Markus explained the theory behind take-off, journey and landing in three simple words: Run ... Run ... Run ...

And running we did .... when we took off to gain speed, when we tipped the ground to retain speed and when we landed to reduce speed and not fall on our noses. I have to tell you, even with the many runs I had in my life, never before I ran down a hill as fast as during this gliding training.

My friends and accompanying aviators Kiko, Michael, Max, and Klaus thought we're just on a sneak peak for how it feels when loosing the touch to the ground. However, things have changed. From our first flight (about 15 mins into the training) the fever got to all of us ... . The feeling when you're in the air - the relaxing silent glide like a bird and the thrill of being high above ground and how it'll work out when we land.

Time to count the numbers as nothing comes for free in this world. Gliding kit, lessons, licenses, transportation, family commitments and so forth are weighing against this feeling of total freedom and the vision of having a effortless lift back down the mountains at completion of our future hikes ...

We're all hooked now ... to live a birds life

As usual you can find selected photos in the Photo Corner. For the previous news stories go to the Storyboard.

Florian Dirscherl, Sydney, Australia
Email: fdirscherl@web.de

Last Update: Mar 2008