Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
I have heard about some of the craziest, most audacious things that people have done and this might be at the top as being one of the boldest things that anyone can do. It is actually quite admirable. Jacques-Andre Istel is known as “the father of American sport parachuting” and in the 1980s, he and his wife moved to California and where he bought a 2,600-acre land decades earlier.
With nothing much around apart from an RV park and some impressively tall sand dunes, the couple’s desert refuge was pretty much in the middle of nowhere. So it made sense, at least in Istel’s fervid imagination, to put it in the middle of somewhere. In 1985, the French-born parachuting pioneer cajoled California’s Imperial County Board of Supervisors into designating…
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