There are few freedoms as liberating as being able to fly, which is why humans spent millennia inventing the airplane and why penguins are so very, very bitter. Exceed evolutionary shortcomings with today’s Groupon to Paramotor Tours in Beverly. Choose from the following options:
- For $75, you get a 15-minute paragliding flight (a $150 value).
- For $99, you get a 15-minute paragliding flight, which is recorded in high-definition video and posted online (a $185 value).
- For $109, you get a 30-minute paragliding flight (a $225 value).
- For $129, you get a 30-minute paragliding flight, which is recorded in high-definition video and posted online (a $260 value).
Paramotor Tours' guides launch adventures up past the clouds into the sky's cerulean expanses, silent except for the hum of the powered glider. To promote safety, a pre-takeoff briefing arms brains with vital knowledge and a list of words seagulls find offensive. Customers can choose a route and altitude for the trip, allowing them to reach heights of up to 8,000 feet as the craft glides over a warm, living map of choppy ocean and sandy beaches. The pilot responds readily to requests to alter the flight path and can shift altitude or direction according to the rider's whims. Either 15 or 30 minutes after takeoff, the vehicle touches down, and passengers disembark full of treasured memories, like the winner of a yearbook-eating contest.
To immortalize the event in something more permanent than skywriting, guests can opt to add HD recording to their skyscraping expedition. Rolling from liftoff to touchdown, the Contour+ HD cameras capture each wild yelp or goose high-five on a 170-degree wide-angle lens. A GPS map allows viewers to follow the route from the ground, and an online record of the route shows off your adventures to selected Internet acquaintances.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Writing an Urban Legend
Everyone secretly wants to believe in scary stories that might be true. Indulge your friends' gullibility with these tips to crafting the perfect urban legend:
• Make sure the story takes place somewhere nearby, on a similar night—ideally exactly 100 years ago to the night. Or on the devil’s birthday.
• Always include an animal that turns out to be a different animal or an animal where one does not belong—like a dog that is actually a rat, or an alligator in the bathroom of the Museum of Alligator Safety.
• Tweak the details—it's only a few letters’ difference to change "gardener" to "murderer," and only a small white lie to change "was valued by the community" to "possessed double hook hands and a thirst for marrow."
• Always carry "proof"—this can be a monster's tooth carved from soap, a faded newspaper article created in Photoshop, or a scrap of the victim's clothing that is actually just a scrap of clothing you ripped off a terrified hiker you chased through the woods.
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