Ooh, those things. Not sure if I could handle that–might trigger the fear of heights in the same way a hot air balloon probably would.
Magiver, my medical history is pretty squeaky clean other than the SSRIs. I’m leaning at the Sport Pilot at this point anyway.
And unfortunately, checking the map for glider locations at the SSA reveals that central Ohio is barren of places. Nearest is over an hour away, which would tend to limit my visits to it. Ah well.
Teterboro or Caldwell.
(Just sayin’)
One possibility is to drive to such a location and spend either the entire day there, or the entire weekend. It’s not always feasible or desirable, but when I was getting my tailwheel sign off I was driving from Indiana to Illinois to get to my instructor and I’d spend an entire day at the airport, getting one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon. Pretty intensive in some ways.
But it did allow for a mid-day nap 
Hmm. That’s an idea. There’s one in Batavia (near Cincinnati). That’s my hometown, so it’s easy to drive down there and crash with the 'rents. I’ve got an email out to a sport pilot instructor guy, which would be my preference assuming sufficient planes to fly and all that. So we’ll see what goes with that first.
Good luck to you and keep us posted on your progress. Planes and aviation are my passion and I still have a hard time keeping up the motivation to keep taking lessons. The Light Sport license is a Godsend to people like us. It makes it much more affordable and the only planes I truly have an interest in flying are the most basic ones. I will own a Carbon Cub at some point.
I will make a pact with you right now. I already have two lessons paid for as gifts that I haven’t taken advantage of in over a year. If you take your first one, just PM me and I will make sure I do too. I always feel like I am walking on air after I get out of a lesson but I always find excuses not to schedule the next one on the spot and so time drags on.
It is a great hobby however if not a little expensive but it is always pay as you go so you can’t ever get in over your head financially if you pay for each lesson up front. Like I said earlier, you are doing the instructors a favor too whether they want to build hours to get an airline job or just supplement owning their own plane. You may need to to shop around for a best fit but I have never personally met a bad one and none of them try to swindle you. It is all about the love of flying.
I think the OP’s only options are Bloch’s or Einstein Bros. Maybe there’s a Panera around there that sells them.
Duly noted. The thing about the LSAs–a lot of them kinda remind me of that Tri-Motor in their general form. True, they’ve got a few fewer motors and they’re not all taildraggers, but the basic look of them–particularly those with the wings mounted up high.
Anyway, current status: Perusing P&P mag, waiting for the LS instructor guy to write me back. If he doesn’t get back to me in the next few days, I’ll try the other one in the area, then it’ll be time to look into gliding, I suppose.