December 2008

By Ron Smith, Executive Publisher

Photography by Kristen Brown

Stay Grounded, For Holiday Fun

Where has all the excitement and fun of air travel gone?

That was the question I asked myself recently on a business trip to California. When I was a kid, lying on my back looking at the clouds on a hot summer’s afternoon and then spying the vapor trail of a passenger jet high in the sky, I could only dream of something so exotic as flying. How amazing it would be, I thought then, to be one of those passengers. Heck, even the idea of having someone in a uniform serve me a soft drink made me think I was important.

How things have changed!
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