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Posts: 439Location: Someplace north...Call it PAAQ to start.Occupation: Work wood, 38 years keeping phones working and flying all over with my best friend in the ordo aurorae septentrionalis, Order of the Northern Dawn.Sometimes you have to just let go & savor the moment…
November, 2009. I was in my then favorite seat, 1A on a DL 752. We lifted off from PANC for KSEA on time, crossing Prince William Sound at about 0145.
An amazing thing was unfolding around us: There was a solar storm blowing up the night with aurorae and turning the air a deep Radium green. And then the fun started: As I pissed off my seatmate by kneeling on the floor with a blanket over my head, blocking his IFE viewing, the Leonid meteor shower hit its peak.
The Northern Dawn lit up, and fireworks rained down around us. It was a sight to behold.
For those of us who’ve seen that, welcome to the club. For everyone else, get up here and prepare to live in awe.
Random thought tonight while the wind from the sun lights up the night and I flash back to that magic first of two dawns I got to see that day.
Or something like that.
Rob in AK
Shoot for the stars, reach your new flight level and fly true.
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