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Brodhead
Driving away from Lakeland, I was so excited to go home. I was actually giggling at 5:30 in the morning, barely awake, thinking about all the fun things I was about to do. All the wonderful people I was about to see. This trip was going to be my most beautiful exile ever! Most people […]
Smyrna
I get to fly the “cool stuff.” The “cool stuff” is a term my friend Rob Lock uses to describe the rare, old planes we love. It’s a subjective list we mentally share between us, without ever having made an actual list. I suppose spending so many years at Kermit’s place, you get introduced to […]
Reading
On Sunday I started north with a medium-sized chance of getting to St Simons Island on the east coast of Georgia. I was looking forward to being rained in there for the day because I remember it being beautiful, and I wanted an excuse to stop and explore the island. That morning it was foggy […]
Indianapolis
Flying back to Florida on Airtran last week after meeting with my artist’s for the comic, a women and her daughter sat in the seats in front of me. I heard from their conversation that this was her daughter’s first airplane flight. Her mother repeated twice, “You ready, we’re going to go really high and […]
Zellwood
Milestones, benchmarks, birthdays – measurements of where we are in our lives. Since 2007 I have driven an hour and a half to Zellwood, Florida to visit my plane at Kimball’s restoration shop at least once a month. The first few years my plane was just parts stuffed in a shed, and a frame […]
Geneseo
I took off my watch when I left Florida in June, I knew I wouldn’t need it that summer. My days would be measured in hours of daylight, gallons of fuel remaining, and the number of thirty minute flights I could do before the light or the gas ran out. Time is redefined when Barnstorming. […]
