The last time I took a flight, I was first suspecting that our Joel was on the way. Joel just turned 19 in September! I was so panicked to fly from St. Louis to San Jose, CA that I was almost as bad as B. A. on the A-Team! If you remember that TV show, they drugged him every time they had to make a flight, which was almost every episode. They drugged him with Novocain, if you’ve noticed the bottle Hannibal uses! I would have needed something stronger than that! Scott and I were on our way to my brother Andy’s wedding. Scott looked up how much it would cost to do a sleeper with Amtrak and said no way. If we were going to the wedding, I must fly. So off we went. We had to stop in Dallas, unfortunately it was raining and a mess. I was the other mess. Tears were streaming down my face. I was relieved when another lady stood up and she was as much a mess as I was! We did discover that I was okay as long as I was reading a book. If I peeked my eyes up from the book, Scott would say “Get back to your book!”.
I decided about five years ago, I think, that I needed to fly so that Scott and I would be able to travel when he retires. I started to pray for the fear to go away. Last year we thought we might get to fly to Portland, OR to see my brother and I told Scott he would have to book two flights because I was going with him. He looked kind of skeptical, but I remained insistent about it. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to get out there.
Yesterday, my new brother in law said he needed to fly his plane to Daytona to get some fuel and asked if I wanted to go with him. I said a quick prayer and felt that I was at last ready to fly and quickly responded “I would love to”. Ray said he wanted to go too, so off we went.
I didn’t have my camera with me on the first part of the flight, so I didn’t get any pictures of that part. It was probably just as well because I would have been distracted with trying to get pictures. I felt no fear at all and actually enjoyed myself looking around. God has answered my prayers and delivered me from that awful fear!
Here is the link for the pictures I took on the return flight. Hope you enjoy them!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/elmcneill/FirstFlight#