{"id":599,"date":"2015-03-05T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:36:22","slug":"run-for-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Run for the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Wilbur (he came up with the idea of once and for all solving the mystery of flight because his father got really, really tired of him doing nothing and told him, no demanded, that he <strong>do\u00a0something<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0with his life) and Orville (he was reluctant at first then slowly came around) for staying the course. Thanks to them and their perseverance <a title=\"Wright Memorial\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial\">I have the most amazing playground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has everything a runner could want. First off it&#8217;s the <em>only<\/em> hill around, all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ninety<\/span>\u00a0impressive feet of it. Then there are the paved walkways. The mowed fields. The artesian water fountain. The clean bathrooms. The tethered only dogs. The 20MPH speed limit. The friendly park service. And always, always the entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLkzfBY2SG22D0E071VabyrrGz1o8BKMW-\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Biofuel plane was making a historic flight from the Boston area to our little landing strip.<\/p>\n<p>The paraglider I happened upon is a third party political leader from Quebec. He was making his inaugural flight. He had\u00a0<em>never<\/em>\u00a0done a glide. He wanted to do it first where the Wright brothers made history and as close to December 17 as he could get. So he made the trip to the OBX. It was a brisk wind day. It took him forever to launch. He had a GoPro on the glider but was happy to get a copy of my video (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_CQPTMyiuihcR1lNOXz0ow\">#37 on my YouTube channel<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Belk&#8217;s brings the suits in to town about once a month for meetings with the local store veeps. This day the pilots invited us to tour the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The military is always present. I saw an E2C Hawkeye fly over low yesterday. They almost always circle the monument, sometimes they land at the airstrip adjacent to the monument (this is where I park because it&#8217;s easy to get to and never closes.) Today a Coast Guard chopper circled the monument twice. I&#8217;m sure it was because I was videoing them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OI9u_KC-ZHs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLkzfBY2SG22D6tEeP1GUcBihKG2_HQ7XH\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The wildlife is abundant. Deer graze on the hill, beside the runway. Mr Fox is a sly one but I&#8217;ve seen him. Today I saw a heron fly by with dinner in his beak, must have been a mouse or a frog because the run off ditches are too shallow for fish. There are flocks of migrating Canadian Geese. Cedar Wax Wings by the dozens. Lizards dashing across my path.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_603\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-image-603\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?resize=434%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Johnny Moore quote\" width=\"434\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandybeachgirl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3358.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quote by Johnny Moore age 16 youngest witness to the first flight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And the magic, generated by that 12 second flight of Orville&#8217;s that changed the world and the 59 second follow up by Wilbur (with two short spurts between) the same day that put the lid on any nay sayers, is ever pervasive. The landscape has changed since Johnny Moore went running down the beach shouting for all to hear. (The dunes came in the 30&#8217;s as a result of a WPA project, but in 1903 the beach was within eyesight.) But not the karma. It&#8217;s as strong as ever.<\/p>\n<p>I love to run along the path that takes me from stone marker to stone marker of those four flights. I say to myself, &#8220;They&#8217;re flying.&#8221; I count seconds. &#8220;They&#8217;re still flying.&#8221; Twelve seconds is a long time when you&#8217;re doing something for the first time. And fifty-nine seconds! It must have seemed like an eternity. Imagine their glee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In commemoration of the conquest of the air by the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright conceived by genius achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love our playground!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Wilbur (he came up with the idea of once and for all solving the mystery of flight because his father got really, really tired of him doing nothing and told him, no demanded, that he do\u00a0something\u00a0\u00a0with his life) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123],"tags":[128,127,125,126,124],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","tag-biofuel-plane","tag-gerard-deltell","tag-orville-wright","tag-wilbur-wright","tag-wright-brothers-monument"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CT4u-9F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3086,"url":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=3086","url_meta":{"origin":599,"position":0},"title":"Wilbur &#038; Orville and Kitty Hawk AND B\u00e4hs","author":"sandy jett ball","date":"January 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It is mid-August 1900. 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