The Final Flights

by Hunter

The next few days where pretty exciting. We woke up a bit early that morning to find ourselves eating breakfast and getting ready to hop in another car ride. It took us about half the day to drive to a small airspace and meet up with our friend Eric (who took us around Paris earlier on our trip) so that he could take us up in a ride on his plane. He told us that he worked on his plane for ten years just fixing it up. It looked well enough even though it was a 1950's model. He could only take me and Dylan on one ride and take Tommy on a seperate ride becuase of our weights. It was a lifting experience (pun intended from like 50 miles away) as we took off not on a concrete runway, but on grass, then into the sky. We flew around over mostly rural France for about 30 minutes. We all had those pretty cool headsets with microphones so we could talk to each other. It got really scary when Eric allowed Dylan to take the joystick and we almost stalled and crashed (just kidding). It was a pretty smooth landing (Eric landed us, not Dylan) and then we waited as Tommy got the same experience. We went back on a ride home and an early dinner and sleep becuase we had to get up really early the next morning to get to the airport.

The next morning we woke up at 5:00 and got on going after eating a very quick breakfast and showers. We got to the airport to do airport stuff and waited to get on the plane at about 10:20. We got first class again and this time I didn't have to go as an unaccompanied minor! The flight was nice and we did airplane stuff in the airplane for 10 hours. We got to Salt Lake and did some more airport stuff in the airport. Dylan and I got held back for bringing bakc a bit of alcohol (hey, it was France, right?) but everything somehow worked itself out and we got back to our parents for a long embrace and got in the car (Tommy went home with his family) and stopped for a quick Apollo Burger and went back to our comfy home in Ogden.

Tune in in a few days for a more psycological overview of our entire trip from the eyes of Dylan Garcia.