Geordan Raisler

A few days ago, (the 24th to be exact), I had an adventure with’ my parents. Waking up at 4:24, I exit my bedroom, get a glass of water, all while bleary-eyed, and go back to bed happy to have attained moisture for the my body’s metabolic procedures. After achieving a comfortable sleeping position, I start to dose away when I hear…”GEORDAN…get up, we gotta go!”, looking at my alarm clock I realize that its 4:30. Trying to remember how I got washed up, dressed, and how I arrived at a hotel was like trying to remember a dream…you only get bits and pieces. So now sitting in the hotels’ restaurant, pen in hand, and a waiver in front of me, saying “Heck I only got one life to live.”, I sign the waiver. Next thing I know I’m on a field with twenty other people I don’t know watching men blow up gigantic balloons. Climbing into the basket of the hot air balloon, (which is starting to leave the ground), I whip out my camera phone, but think twice because the last thing I want to do is drop my phone. We start leaving the ground and gently drift upwards into the sky. Still early in the morn, I get a glimpse of the rising sun, not thinking twice, I whip out my camera phone for the second time, take a shot, and quickly put it back in my pocket. We keep gliding along the currents at a “quick” 38 Mph, and set down an hour later, they served champagne for a successful flight, and everyone got a glass…except me, (bluffs don’t work like they used too…). I would recommend anyone to take a hot air balloon ride for this one reason…

Geordans’ Thoughts – Being in a modern world surrounded by noise, cars, phones, music, TV, computers, etc. it’s hard to take some time away to be in a silent place for a while. Being in the balloon, one realizes how quiet the natural world can be, and one almost reconnects to themselves in quietness. Do you have a silent place?