Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)
We hiked through the jungle, me and the teenagers, on a steep and rocky path. We were in good spirits, but had to keep an eye out for the dangerous orange-faced primates we knew were in the area. As we got closer to our destination, we started to see them with greater frequency. They didn't attack, but we knew it was just a matter of time.
We reached the shore of the lake and escaped the primates by strapping our our paragliders and flying out over the lake. These were much like real paragliders, but quite a bit smaller. We cruised around over the peaceful, deep blue water for a while, looking for an updraft. I finally turned to ask one of the kids when we'd know if we found one, when I was suddenly pulled upward.
The updraft raised all of us with alarming speed. Since I was new, I concerned myself with staying in the current, while my friends all hooted and hollered and did all kinds of extreme tricks as we rose. It was exhilarating. Before long I was having trouble seeing the ground past all the cloud layers we'd risen through. Soon we reached the stratosphere, which wasn't as cold as I expected it to be.
Shortly we saw our destination, and turned to land in turn on the top of a plateau. It had the remnants of an ancient road on it, with grass growing up between the stones, that ran to the edge of the plateau. I wondered what had happened to this civilization that had been here, only to have the plateau holding it up crumble away like that. We gathered up our kites and started the hike back down to do it all over again.