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We went on Soaring Over California on a rainy day when we could walk through repeatedly without waiting more than a few minutes. I actually liked it more and more: the films they show are so sharp that you can look around inside the scene. At one point, you “fly” over Yosemite Falls, pursuing a hang glider (illegal in Yosemite National Park, I believe—and so edited in). The climb to the brink of Yosemite Falls is a hike I have long wanted to do and have not found the time for yet, and I have always wondered how the trail reaches the plateau up a seemingly solid wall of granite. If you look hard enough at the film, near the bottom of the screen, you can see the trail and follow it northward. You can tell I was ready to get out of the city entirely.

But enjoyed the thing immensely, as did Dustin and Lewis, although Lewis did not like the fireworks at the end. He can put up with virtually anything, but he seems to have extraordinarily sensitive ears where explosions are concerned. He otherwise babbled happily for days about how “you need to pick up your feet, because you wouldn’t want them to hit the trees.”

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