Pedaling
home from work yesterday, I came upon this fairground ride set up in
the middle of Boston Common. According to the City of Boston’s official
press release, “The AeroBalloon will give Boston’s residents and
visitors a bird’s-eye
view of the city while our partnership will help support the programs
offered through the Fund for Parks and Recreation.”
and kerryandmitt come
running from health care and
taxes and it’s
summerwhen the world is hazy-hot-humidful
the queer
marriage activists protest
far and wee
They had one of those tourist balloons in Baltimore and a dozen people got caught in it for a couple of hours in a windstorm. It hasn’t flown since and now the city wants something else in its place.
Actually, yesterday one of my coworkers tried to take her family up the balloon, and they had the entire operation on hold because people were apparently screaming their heads off after the wind picked up. Guess tethered hot air-ballooning can be pretty scary, maybe scarier than free-floating.