Packing a parachute is not unlike packing a bag lunch—it's a bummer when your mom puts old ham in either one. Leave packing to the experts with today's Groupon: for $119, you get one tandem skydiving session from Sportations (up to a $195 value on-site or up to a $259.99 value online). Jumps will take place at Adventure Skydiving Tennessee.
Sportations, one of the largest adventure-sports providers in the United States, gives air-ready revelers a new way to view Tennessee with tandem skydiving. Altitude seekers will be briefed on jump safety for approximately 30 minutes before flying to a dizzying altitude. With a professional skydiving instructor and equipment strapped to your back for the duration of the gravitational ride, you'll be free to wave to passing birds, take in the view, and grab onto drops of light making their way back home to the sun.
The staff members at Sportations pride themselves on customer service and on amassing extreme-sports providers from all over the country in one place. Allow them to take care of the details of your earthbound journey while you contemplate why ants look so much like humans when viewed from above.
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The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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