In March of 2015, I had the adventure of a lifetime! It began when I was planning a trip to visit my friends Bob Taylor (to tour their new Mexican facility), and also to visit with Doug Shane (to tour The Space Ship Company) . Doug is now the President of Richard Branson’s space tourism …
On September 29th, 2004, Jim and friend Kevin Ryan witnessed the launch of SpaceShipOne in its quest for the 10 million dollar Ansari X-Prize. As guests of Doug Shane, Jim and Kevin were able to tour the facility at Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites within hours of the successful flight. Be sure to see the pictures …
In March of 2003, Jim was invited by Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars to take a three day trip to the Yuma Desert to ride “sport quads” in the many miles of sand dunes. Having no experience at this sort of thing, Jim was a bit like a “fish out of water” to start, but …
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