Harrison Lake camping trip, 1998
point-and-shoot Pentax Espio 738
It’s my birthday weekend so I decided to get out of the city. I’m going to commune with the natural world and sneak up on some wildlife with my 80-200mm zoom.
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that is not marked with boundaries; that’s not a map. We’re not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there’s a reminder that there are a lot worse things that can happen, and a lot greater rewards.”
– Richard Bach, television interview
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men… I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
– Charles A. Lindbergh
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
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