It wasn’t an exciting-scary ride it was exciting-awe inspiring ride. Surprisingly there was not much feeling of height. The ride had couple of thrilling moments when our balloon went really, really close to the Rio Grande’s water and then really close to the trees as we climbed out of the river bank. They call it “splash and dash”. It is amazing these guys can predict where they are going and where they going to end up. It seemed that the minute our pilot got us up he was looking for places he could put us down. He ended up putting us down (with 3 good bounces) in the backyard of Mrs. Anderson whose husband was very famous in the ballooning world. Max Anderson and two of his friends made the first successful crossing of the Atlantic in a gas balloon in 1978.
Our ride was also successful but only 90 minutes. The rest of time was spent watching the balloons get filled and then at the end get emptied and packed up. The ‘chase’ crew and pilot were kept in real good shape from all the tugging, lugging and lifting. Speaking of tugging, lugging, and lifting, Rosie my neighbor requested a picture of me climbing into the basket so make sure you see the embarrassing photo of my big butt climbing over the side. I kept my promise…..It is in this photo album
