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Submit to the SKy
Once you're floating, it's peaceful and
quite . . . the occasional hydrogen blast
notwithstanding, of course.

Ballooning involves a special ability to submit yourself to the sky. It
means helplessness on the one hand,
or freedom on the other. At 3,400 feet,
he says, "Now we've got bungee
jumping cords for whoever wants
them." Nervous laughter.
There is a vast amount of silence,
surprisingly, peppered with small comments about the little farms, the little
cows, the little waving people. Nothing
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can be said to really dip into the
bizarre, beautiful experience we
strangers are all having together in our
giant basket, I suppose. It is a matter of
taking it all in, I think - the mountains
are captivating. On other flights in different winds, Behr floats over
Charlottesville as a kind of tour of the
city. I'm content with floating over the
rich greenery of Virginia farmland.
When we float on down to the
stranger's (or very quickly made
friend's) yard to land, it feels like the
soundtrack changes from majesty
back to silliness. Once on the ground,
we are surrounded by curious dogs


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