An excerpt from Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, says it all: “Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each opuff of wind.”
All the beauty in this area is nothing short of mesmerizing. Today my instructor, Roger, and I went on another cross country. Today’s adventure took us to Smith Mountain Lake and Danville. I learn more and more every day from this super talented man. Pictures below:
Photos on our way to Smith Mountain Lake. The first one should make everyone want to fly rather than drive.
At Smith Mountain Lake Airport:
Tweety Bird, meet Big Bird (also at Smith Mountain Lake):
Flying around the Lake:
To Danville from Smith Mountain Lake:
And toward home once again:
at the New River Valley Mall and Christiansburg:
Love beyond words. Find eternity in each moment.