1:st thing in Sweden, check out our home DZ - Gryttjom, Skydive Stockholm

GRYTTJOM DZ

The day after I came home I went out to Tierp and Gryttjom to see how out home Dropzone was doing after the winter. Met up with a couple of my fellow skydivers and fixed a few things out there. The cold winter and snow had caused some damage to some of the buildings and other things but it wasn´t that bad and it could easily be fixed. It´s one week from the start of the season so everything has to be ok. We also checked the runway. It´s made of grass so it´s a bit sensitive to rain and bad weather, but it was actually not that bad, if it doesn´t rain anymore until next weekend we could probably get the plane in the air, yeah!

Here, take a look at our beautiful dropzone, one day in april, one week before jump season!

Beer line, swoop & tandem area

Beer line, tandem cabins

Club house

Club house

The pole where the drouge is supposed to be

Me & Micke checking out the runway

Clubhouse

Kitchen

Andreas taking a break

A new motor run marquis over the manifest, sweet!

My future workplace, Makkara

Indoor packing area

The restaurant - Makkara

Chillin´ area

Shower & sauna

A new railing in the back

Jonas cleaning out the showers

A broken sauna! We need a new one, fast!

If you see anything unmarked in the dropzone, you can claim it by yelling out 9,10. If nobody answers, it´s yours! Or just but it in this box and it goes to anybody.

Kitchen

Karin enjoying the dishes ;-)

Tandem cabins

The very last remaining snow.

Stretching out the drouge

Me, cleaning in Makkara

So see ya all soon in Gryttjom, Skydive Stockholm. This year is gonna kick ass!

BLUE SKIES & SWEET FLYING

// David

Last day in California - Last day of Sweetliving tour

Hi all!

The day has come. 3 months of travelling has come to an end and it's time for me to return home to Sweden for a while. I have very mixed feelings about his.  One part of me is very sad to leave this side of the world. I had the best time in every country I've been to, seen some awsome places and met some amazing people and gained many new friends. And the other side of me is very happy to return home again, to see my family and friends and to continue working with Sweetliving.

Right now I'm at Venice beach again, spending my last hours here before Willo is taking me to the airport, again :-) So I'm just gonna go down on the boardwalk now, have some breakfast by the beach, take a walk and just relax a bit before my long flight home.

A normal day at the boardwalk

And now I just want to thank all of our readers for following me on this trip. It's been a pleasure. And it's amazing that almost 1000 new readers has joined our Sweetliving blog just in the last 7 weeks. That is so    cool and it's so much more than I ever could have hoped for. So thank you all again for reading and hope you've satisfied with everything. If you have anything to say about anything just send me an e-mail.

And and just have to say that just because the tour is over doesn't mean that I will stop writing. We have a lot of plans and projects this year so we'll keep you updated, I promise, so stay with us!

BIG UP & TRUE LOVE TO ALL OF YOU !!

// David

One day @ Skydive San Diego

This weekend me and my new found friend Rocco went to San Diego to do some skydiving. I´d only heard rumors how good and cool the DZ was supposed to be, and all of them were true. The minute I walked in to the DZ I had a good vibes about the place. It was a very small DZ, but with a lot of skydive feeling.

The landing area was a nice grass area surrounded by mountains. There was actually no place to land out, but with good spotting and good winds hat didn´t matter. The winds here was 99 % of the time blowing in the same direction so everyone knew how to fly in for their landing which never led to any misunderstanding, safe!

And for the swoopers and tandem there was golf grass to land on, deluxe!!

And the view from the plane, the freefall and from canopy was amazing. You could see the ocean, the mountains and Mexico at the same time, awsome, and also the peaks of the mountains stretched up to 3000 feet so when you deployed your chute you had the mountainpeaks horizontally with your eyes, sweet I must say!

We did 5 sweet jumps including one special jump for this DZ. It was called Pilecone, The San Diego 500, and they got the name from the Daytona 500, the nascar race. It worked almost the same way but up in the air. Two people acted as cones on their belly holding on to a long stripe, with a distance of 200 feet from each other. And the rest, in case the rest was 21 people, was tracking left turns around them, like a race, coolest thing I´ve done in a while ;-) Have to do that again, so I´m bringing that to Sweden to do it there!

The pictures and video from that and the other jumps will publish a bit later due to some technical problems.

So I registered and got my self up in the air either in the Caravan or the Twin Otter they had there.

Todays agenda, Head down practice!

Packing area

Manifest

Tandem area

Max Bond, T-Rex boyfriend, had a bad landing one day but he´s happy anyway ;-)

He´s coming to Sweden in May to jump and work with us. Big Up Max!

Swoop and Tandem landing, golf grass!

Main landing area

Way to the plane

Ready to go

The caravan

Sweet view of the DZ

Mexico

San Diego, Mexico and the ocean

In the caravan

Rocco & Me

The Twin Otter

Rocco

Cool swoop

Another cool swoop

Rocco in the air

Another new found friend - Adam

The DZ @ night

I will publish more pictures from the freefall and also some videos as soon as possible.

I had the best day at Skydive San Diego with some awsome jumps. You know when you have one of those days when everything goes right, this was one of those days!

So if you ever have the chance to go to Skydive San Diego, either if you are an experienced skydiver or just want to do a tandem, this is the place, you wont regret it!

Bye San Diego for this time, I will see you again....

Sweetliving tours continues...