This will be a site about my life, including its ups and downs, but mostly about sailing our Klepper folding kayaks, but also about outdoor life, family life, model aircraft flying, photography and audio recording.

To make a short sum up of my life since 1990, I better quote myself (from an old site about my model flying):

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My name is Tord S Eriksson, I live in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden, and my main interests are birdwatching, aeronautics and aircraft design, including RC-controlled model aircraft (which is the only kind I can afford at the moment).

I love to design and modify my model aircraft, test what goes and what does not, what flies well and what doesn't. This progress was very slow, as was my progress as a model flyer, till I stumbled onto the world of foamies, and flying wings. No aircraft has fewer parts than a flying wing, and is it a foamie wing it builds fast and can very quickly be repaired, even outdoors, as you only need some tape and some glue.

After a near fatal accident in Scotland 1990 I decided I should treasure each day as it comes, and do the things I wanted to do, if I could. Due to Fortune I had a computer that could get me into contact with fellow computer enthusiasts and until I could walk again this kept me alive - first by mailing friends the conventional way all over the world, then by BBS-ing and then came the glorious world of the internet and emails, where I found even more friends and interesting websites.

So me, a seasoned busdriver, went back to school; studied at the university, managing a BA in journalism; but the local papers didn't want a 45 year old rookie, so eventually, after eight years of studies, physical training and operations, I was back driving buses, albeit under quite different circumstances than before - we were now a deregulated branch, where competiton and slim organisations are the buzz words - to me they equal no reserves if something breaks down, or someone get sick, or attacked, inhumane treatment of passengers and personnel, and absolutely unrealistic planning of timetables and ... , but we'll leave it at that for now. This site is about what's fun in life! Break-neck competition at work isn't!

Well, during the years of recuperations I learned eventually (after many false starts during the previous decades) how to fly a model aircraft (yes, I did enlist to a local club and got some very useful help, to get me going) - far more complex to do than fly a full-size glider, I learned the hard way.

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Well, I'm still bus driver, and while model aircraft is still an interest, I am now married and boat owner, or rather owns a heap of boats, all small enough to find room in our flat. Yeah, while I didn't find any journalist jobs, I found a wife! She had just lost her first husband, and I love clever women, so after a few false starts I moved into her small flat, which she shared with her daughter, and son, plus their partners, so it was kind of crowded.