Cool hotair balloon this AM

[legacyABQ]

This is not an uncommon sight in Albuquerque. Before I found my camera, he was directly over my backyard, and very very low, but he had hit the burners and was going straight up when I shot this. It was perfectly quiet and still, almost no wind, so he was floating sideways at maybe 2 miles per hour... Very nice! My kids loved it.

There's my poor old Dodge in the foreground

[jimmy]

Cool, every year we go to Prosser and visit family when they have Hot Air Ballon festival. It's very fun to watch. If the wind is correct they dip the baskets in the Yakima River.

[legacyABQ]

Yeah, thats exactly what they do here too. They dip 'em in the rio grande.

Yakima river huh.. I got family over in the richland/pasco/kennewick WA area.. Used to water ski on the columbia river when i was a kid..

Western washington, in the cascades, is one of the most beautiful places in the whole country.. I did some camping on Mt Rainier <sp?> man is it nice over there! They still make that beer named Rainier?

[tinbasher]

back in the late 60' there was a rainier theme song that was one of the catchiest tunes i ever heard.

[Oldguy]

Yep. Remember the ad with the motorcyclist screaming down the road and you can hear as he goes through the gears: Raaaa- Nerrrrrrrrr- Beerrrrrrrrr! Thought that was pretty funny at the time. Mike

[tinbasher]

i don't remember the motorcycle commercial, but i do remember the other ones with the song used to run during heehaw and bonanza.

[jimmy]

I remember the motorcycle comercial.
It made me thursty and I was only a kid!

[legacyABQ]

Hee-Haw and Bonanza??
Good ol' heehaw