Archive for April 19th, 2006

19 Apr 2006 The Flying Fieldings
Author: Gail |  Category: Flying  | 4 Comments

Digging through the archives to see if there are any photos of us not yet uploaded — photos of us together, photos of us at our happiest — flying in the Piper Tri-Pacer. I have a backup of all our photos and videos on DVDs and an external firewire drive, but I upload them to Flickr as a third backup storage in case of some home disaster. You never know.

Our house has just been sold :( , so the next item is the airplane. It makes my heart heavy to have to sell it, but selling is the only viable option at this juncture. I don’t have my pilot’s license, I am not allowed to reside in the U.S., and airplanes are expensive to maintain. I wish I could keep the Tri-Pacer, if at the very least to get my pilot’s license and be able to fly 02P down the road, but it’s wholly impractical if not nigh near impossible.

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19 Apr 2006 Irony in Lake Ariel
Author: Gail |  Category: Local Colour, Tales of the Absurd  | 3 Comments

I was looking for that photo I mentioned in the previous post, the first one I took of David, and I found this.

It’s a shot I took back in October 2004, the weekend we met. We were on our way to Cherry Ridge to take out the Tri-Pacer, and Lake Ariel is one of the towns we pass through to get there. I don’t remember exactly when the sign was taken down, but I’m certain it isn’t there anymore. In fact, I think the shop does other business now.

This photo is part of my set of signs — bizarre, funny, misspelled, provocative, or just plain eye-catching signs I’ve happened upon.