The EAA has a great first flight program, Eagle Flight, that allows you to opportunity to fly, and be introduced to everything that aviation has to offer. From the EAA:
Ever since he was growing up in Los Angeles, Brian Lewis knew he wanted to fly. He fondly remembers family outings at LAX where they’d park near the end of the runway at night to marvel at the big planes taking off and landing.
Lewis, now 54 and living in Cottonwood, Arizona, finally realized his dream of becoming a pilot this year thanks in large part to EAA’s year-old Eagle Flights program. He went up with Dale Williams, EAA 1058739, in Williams’ Cessna Cardinal (177B) for an Eagle Flight on November 27, 2012, and this past July Lewis became the first “Eagle” to earn a pilot certificate.

As the Boy Scouts – an organization that I have long admired – trundles down a path that I believe is going to end up tearing the organization apart, a new group – Trail Life USA – has emerged. The faith-based group believes that they are set to become a premiere organization for boys and young men.
Their stated goal is to “counter the ‘moral free-fall’ of the nation, and ‘raise a generation of faithful husbands, fathers, citizens and leaders.'” As they become more and more public, the group has captured attention because of their open competition with the BSA. Their mission is to “provide a robust alternative to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).”
The name of the group was chosen to avoid any political or controversial undertones.
What happens after a forest fire like the HUGE Rim Fire burning near Yosemite?