Well well well. It’s official! I passed my private pilot checkride! The long and arduous road to becoming a private pilot ended on another windy day in Wyoming. What a journey. I started this journey in May of 2021, not even five months after rupturing my right Achilles tendon playing basketball. When I first started flying, I had zero strength in my right leg and couldn’t even push in the right rudder pedal to the floor. As time went on I regained strength in my leg and pushed onward. I flew at Wings Flying Club at…
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Where is it? That great lofty sky that I did not know til now, but saw today?
This hill held the entire purpose for my pilgrimage to Europe. I read the first half of War and Peace the summer before I started my senior year of college. While the book is fiction, it chronicles some real historical events. One such main event is the Battle of Austerlitz. Here, Napoleon routed the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and Russia so badly he effectively ended the War of the Third Coalition. This was considered the crowning jewel of Napoleon’s military command. One of the chapters in the book follows a main character named…