Category: Biography
Purpose: For personal stories, reflections, and articles about my life.
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Soloing at 16: When Your Instructor Needs a “Restroom Break”
You know that feeling when you realize your “easy” day just turned into a high-stakes, life-defining exam? That was me in 1977, a 16-year-old student pilot, convinced that flying was just slightly more complex than riding a bike (but way cooler).
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My Personal “lost while adventuring” Experience (1977)
At age 16, my Outward Bound Final Expedition patrol of eight teenage boys set out to show what we’d learned. We got lost for most of a day in a white-out on a glacier in northwest USA. It was scary, we were cold, tired and lost without our instructors. But we hiked it out and…
