Look.at.the.Hair!

You HAVE to click on this photograph, so you can see my hair in all its glory! Yikes!  This was in 1981.  I used to go to work like this with this mop of hair!  Wow.  I remember when we went to visit my mom and dad in Connecticut, I would walk in the back door, my father would take one look at me and say "Get a haircut!"   I still laugh when I think of that.  I found a bunch of color slides and black & white negatives in the garage, so I brought them in and looked through them.  They were all from back when I was flying a seaplane over in Port Washington.  I flew with an instructor for maybe 20 hours and then took a checkride and got my seaplane rating!  What was really cool was, they would rent me the plane whenever I wanted.  So instead of going to some airport to fly, I would just go over to Port, and go flying.  It was absolutely thrilling, flying the seaplane.  It is a speedboat, and an airplane, all in one!  One day I wanted to get photographs of me flying, so I set Kathy up with a camera and telephoto lens, down on the beach at the end of our street, then I went and flew the seaplane over from Port Washington, and did takeoffs and landings while she took photos.  I love having these photos.  The company sold this seaplane, and eventually sold their property, and got out of the seaplane business, sad to say.  About 8 years ago I accompanied Kathy to Seattle for a conference she was attending.  I found a seaplane base, and with an instructor,  flew a seaplane again for an hour or so.  It was magical.