Lin Wilder's Blog, page 63
September 7, 2014
Dawn Patrol
We had not been in two, maybe three years and invited friends with young children to make the middle of the night drive from Smith Valley to see the Dawn Patrol early this morning. Although I have been to the Reno Balloon Races five or maybe now six times, the thrill of watching these six pilots ‘glow’ against the September black sky is absolute; it does not diminish.
There had to have been thousands – ten, maybe twenty thousand of us gathered in the park with us this morning for only one reason: the love of beauty, the thrill of these huge mostly silent creations gliding over our heads in the still morning before dawn. We left our house at three this morning to meet the two other families we were ‘wagon training’ in from our little valley. Everyone was excited, the five kids still looking sleepy but engaged.
Our timing could not have been better and the weather during this early chilly morning was also perfect, allowing the pilots unusual latitude in positioning their balloons so that they could hover over the crowd and over the pre-dawn sky of the city. The announcers leading the invitation:
Counting down from five!
Five, four, three, two, one!
Glow!!
They can hear you!
Over and over again.
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