July 6th, 2008
With our preparations for leaving Abbeville pretty complete, we hung out with Fred on Sunday, watching him do our famous kickstands, and add a GPS to his ultralight. Kevin came by with a buddy, and they went up for several flights. Chelsea went up with Fred to take photos of Kevin’s plane from the air. Chelsea and Fred covered quite a distance in their time in the air – they went all the way to Vermilion Bay and saw the menhaden factory from the air. The photos are great – check out the photo gallery. They also saw a huge flock of roseate spoonbills in flight, so Chelsea was on cloud nine. My flight with Fred was really uneventful, but it was so perfect that I felt melancholic almost the entire flight, thinking this would be my last flight with Fred. The winds were really calm for the first ever for us, and it was heaven. Neither Chelsea nor I will forget the peacefulness and the beauty of our flights.