The PapaGolf Chronicles: Visiting the White House

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Visiting the White House

I didn't bother to call ahead - didn't think anyone would mind.

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BrandonMay 9, 2009 at 11:20:00 AM EDT
You are now "on the list". Congratulations.
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JeffMay 9, 2009 at 4:50:00 PM EDT
Dave if you throttle back and deploy half flaps can the F16's stay with you or do they have to take turns lining you up for a shot? Great photo by the way. This is one occasion where I don't want to be there with you.
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AnonymousMay 19, 2009 at 10:13:00 AM EDT
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Gimli™May 19, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM EDT
Fake and shopped :P
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Quotes

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others.

— Ernest Hemingway

I’ll run my hand gently over the wing of a small airplane and say to him, “This plane can teach you more things and give you more gifts than I ever could. It won’t get you a better job, a faster car, or a bigger house. But if you treat it with respect and keep your eyes open, it may remind you of some things you used to know — that life is in the moment, joy matters more than money, the world is a beautiful place, and that dreams really, truly are possible.” And then, because airplanes speak in a language beyond words, I’ll take him up in the evening summer sky and let the airplane show him what I mean.

— Lane Wallace

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

— Benjamin Franklin

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

— William Morris

And once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return.

— Leonardo DaVinci (obligatory)