…and I was in one of them. I went in up in the University-sponsored balloon as part of Media Day for the Great Reno Balloon Race.
More pics on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/haikupiec/sets/72157607112867181
Woke up in the middle of the night and reached for my BlackBerry. (Some people have security blankets, some have BBs.)
Yahoo weather for Reno listed Squalls. I am used to Snow, Clear, Cloudy, Mostly Cloudy, Rainy but Squalls. Never seen that one. I will say that wind in Reno is like nowhere else that I have been. It’s awesome.
Defined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squall
And I mean the really big kind with people in baskets hanging below (who decided that was safe??). Lots of them. On Friday I saw the Energizer Bunny, the Wells Fargo Stagecoach, Smokey the Bear and lots of multi-colored numbers. Today I saw a ReMax balloon while I was outside watering my plants and I thought that maybe I was caught in the crosshairs of a commercial shoot — and reconsidering the choice of flannel green PJs for garden work…
Anyway, they are magical. From the ground, they are magical. And another Reno surprise…
