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For now, I thought I’d share some photos from the evening. I can’t tell you how amazing it was. A big thanks to the Airial Balloon Company, especially Shannan, for being so lovely!
The evening started out at the office, where the balloon pilots assessed the wind speed. Balloon flights can be a little fickle. That is, you can schedule something, and then it might be canceled due to poor wind conditions (this is what happened to me—I was supposed to go up the night before, but it was too windy).
Fortunately, the wind was very calm on Sunday night, and we were able to embark on our journey. I was assigned a balloon basket with three other passengers. Our pilot was Tom, a wonderful former helicopter-pilot-turned-balloon-enthusiast who says the day he rode in his first hot air balloon in the 1980’s something “snapped” in his brain and he decided that’s what he wanted to do with his
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Last night (yes, on Easter!), I went on my very first hot air balloon ride! It was amazing, exhilarating, and so incredibly peaceful and cathartic for me on many personal levels. I’m writing an essay about this momentous balloon ride in the July issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, so be sure to pick up the issue on newsstands to read about the significance of this journey for me.
For now, I thought I’d share some photos from the evening. I can’t tell you how amazing it was. A big thanks to the Airial Balloon Company, especially Shannan, for being so lovely! (If you live in the Seattle-area, you should check them out!)
The evening started out at the office, where the balloon pilots assessed the wind speed. Balloon flights can be a little fickle. That is, you can schedule something, and then it might be canceled due to poor wind conditions (this is what happened to me—I was supposed to go up the night before, but it was too windy).
Fortunately, the wind was very calm on Sunday night, and we were able to embark on our journey. I was assigned a balloon basket with three other passengers. Our pilot was Tom, a wonderful former helicopter-pilot-turned-balloon-enthusiast who says the day he rode in his first hot air balloon in the 1980’s something “snapped” in his brain and he decided that’s what he wanted to do with his life (he also edited an entire magazine on hot air ballooning—so cool).