August 17th, 2010
On Friday evening, we flew a couple from Elkton, MD
 Connie & Jack On Saturday morning, we flew a couple from Zionsville, PA
 Will and Ann On Saturday evening, we flew 3 couples from the Albany area in our big Peacock VII hot air balloon.
 Ray & Pam, Bruce & Linda, Epifanio & Beth Anne The balloon flying weather for the week is coming into focus. The weather looks good for Tuesday and Wednesday, and probably early Thursday and Friday, into early Saturday. After that, our weather looks unsettled for the balance of the weekend into early next week. I am hopeful that the unsettled weather will hold off until later in the weekend. Check back later as we update the flying weather closer to the coming weekend.
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August 13th, 2010
We flew a couple from Potsdam on Wednesday evening for their 25th Anniversary celebration
 Congratulations Craig & Priscilla on your 25th On the morning of the 12th, we flew a family from Valparaiso, Indiana who were vacationing in the area.
 Jon & Nadine Philips and family
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August 13th, 2010
The flying weather forecast looks good through early Sunday. Then the wind is forecast to pick-up with weather coming-in for the overnight, and advertised to stick around through the early part of next week. The flying weather should improve for the second half of next week. Check back for flying weather updates.
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August 11th, 2010
I thought I might give some of my blog readers some perspective of where Ted Stevens and his party’s plane went down in Alaska. My son Grant lived in Dillingham Alaska for 4 years before moving into Anchorage, and then on to Colorado. Dillingham is even by Alaska standards, considered remote-you can only get there by plane or boat (when there is no ice). In 2005, my wife and I made the first of our 3 trips to Alaska to visit with Grant and our other son Eric, who was also in Dillingham at the time. On this trip, we visited them in Dillingham for the first part of the stay. I’m posting some pics of the area so you can get a perspective of just where this happened.
 Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport and our plane to Dillingham. Notice the shorts on the airline employee-it's February folks and not a warm spell either.  The view from the plane on the way to Dillingham. Notice no superhighway, so you can't get there from here other than by air!  Dillingham airport terminal. They had shoveled a nice path for us.  The view of downtown Dillingham from our B&B, Ti Inn  Dillingham Harbor, remember folks, this is February.  Some of the fishing fleet?  Fisherman's Cafe that's sinking into the bay.  The straight road below, is Aleknagik Lake Road  Here we are at Aleknagik. Our tour boat arrived just in-time before the lake froze.  This is Grant and his doggy Saranac on Snake Lake Mountain w/Snake Lake in the background. The plane went down up that way and to the right where Aleknagik Lake is.  Grant doing some spring skiing with either Lake Aleknagik or Snake Lake in the background. And that’s it for this trip.
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August 9th, 2010
The forecast for this week starts out with unsettled weather for Monday and Tuesday. The weather should improve by Wednesday and remain reasonable through the first half of the coming weekend. We expect good flying conditions during this time frame, so call if you are interested in going on a hot air balloon ride.
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August 8th, 2010
We had some good flying weather this weekend, but it’s looking like it will come to an end. It’s not very promising for the afternoon today or Monday. The weather also looks to be challenging for the most part this week. We will update the weather early in the week as we see how things appear to be working out for doing some flying.
 The flying started on Friday morning with Tom and Cynthia from Scotia  Next up on Saturday morning was Shannon & Ashley from Schenectady, Jeff & Carmen from E. Stroudsburg, Brian & Carol from Rego Park  On the Saturday PM flight we had Jake & Allison from Blue Point, Ellen & Chris from S. Setauket  On Sunday morning, we had Adrian & Brian from Astoria, Mary Ellen & Mara from Clifton Park, John & Chris from NYC
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August 6th, 2010
The morning worked out to be a fine morning for flying. We had a couple up from Scotia who are doing a weekend up in the Lake George area.
 Tom & Cynthia The flying weather looks great for this weekend. We are expecting lots of sun, cool temps and low humidity, and a possibility of going 4/4 on flights, and plus, maybe even good flying for the Monday AM flight.
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August 2nd, 2010
The flying weather is forecast to be unsettled until a frontal passage late on Thursday, setting us up for a very pleasant end of the week and for the coming weekend. The best flying opportunities this week will be the morning flights due to disturbances periodically moving through the area, and from heating of the day plus increasing humidity, every afternoon during the week until a frontal passage late in the week. We have space available, so call or email us, if you are interested in flying.
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August 1st, 2010
The flying weather improved in time for the weekend, and we managed 3 flights with a number of folks from as near as Saratoga, to Syracuse, Flushing in NYC, and Wanaque and Fair Lawn NJ.
 Jessica & Jason, Stephanie & Jason  Brandon, Pei Pei, LiLi, Sze Sze, Siew Chin  Chuck & Allison
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July 30th, 2010
Wifey and I went to a place the other night that we had been wanting to try out for quite some time, the Farm House at the Top of the World. We had heard some very good things about the food, and I have to tell you, we had the best meal we’ve ever had in this area. They were featuring what was billed as a Harvest Dinner, a 7 course meal served-up family style. We sat at a long table that was set for around 16 or so. There were also others who were not doing the Harvest meal, ordering off the menu, sitting separate from us. Top of the World is a resort property that was originally developed back in the 1920’s. There currently is an 18 hole golf course, condominiums, the restaurant and a B&B. The building that the restaurant is in is very retro, but comfortable with great views. That is one of the things about the Top of the World, besides the food, is the view. Absolutely the best view in the area, even better than the view from Prospect Mountain, in my humble opinion. It’s worth the trip just for the view, but if you appreciate tasty, inventive food, this is the place to check out while in the area.
 The photo doesn't do the view justice, looking north at Lake George and the Adirondacks. There also are spectacular views east and south east toward the Green Mountains of VT.  The Farmhouse Restaurant  Some of the folks enjoying their meal  Our group enjoying the Harvest Dinner
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