@Flatpickin_Libby I know Dale Perry and did not know till today that he has played with lots of cool people (he never mentioned it 
) and I’m told you would think that is cool so I’m announcing it
What are y'all up to?
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver alumnus!!
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Just about to start work on @BanjoBen 's NEW Waypoint’s Lesson featuring the D Chord
https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/waypoints-learning-the-banjo-neck-d-chord-banjo-intermediate
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Yep, he and his wife run the Nine Mile bluegrass festival in Pikeville TN. I first met him in March, we talked some about banjos (he thought mine was an actual Gibson bowtie and was asking about it) and then last month they had a get together with performances at their house which I also went to. I thought he was just a random guy who loves bluegrass but saw him in an old Lonesome River Band video the other day and learned he’s played with them, DLQ, Bluegrass Cardinals, and I think a few others. Never would’ve guessed, he’s very humble and down to earth 
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Peaaace liiike a riiiiver so gentlyyyy is floooowing
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Last Saturday I flew to Tampico, Mexico and back. Over 1,400NM round trip, was a long and incredible day! I hope to use aviation in Mexican missions one day and this was a training flight to learn how to cross the border and deal with customs/immigration. It was a success!
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Last week Libby and I went along with our Dad and Mom to a doctor’s appointment in Arizona. We flew out from Savannah to New York and then to Arizona Monday evening and then to North Dakota the next day to visit some friends. On the way home the flight went back to Arizona for a night and then to Atlanta.
We obviously didn’t have to deal with crossing the boarder but if we had had more time in Arizona I would’ve liked to have visited Mexico.
Currently we are headed to Brevard NC for Bryan Sutton’s Blueridge guitar camp. It’s going to be a busy next couple of months.
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I decided that I love flying and the horizon sure is flat from 32,000 feet up!!
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You expected to see something else? You have to be around 35,000 ft to even begin visually seeing earth’s curvature.
To put 32,000 ft. in perspective, Mt Everest is 29,000 ft high. The Mariana Trench is 36,000 ft deep. If you were to shrink the earth down to the size of a billiard ball, even considering the difference between the 2 extremes I mentioned, it would be the smoothest billiard ball ever made.
32,000 ft is about 6 miles. At that height, you’d be able to see about 250 miles in any direction with clear skies. Even on a perfectly clear day, though, that’s not high enough to get a sufficient sample size of the earth to make out a curve. To put it in Texas terms, you’d basically be able to see El Paso on one side of the plane and San Antonio on the other.
If you look at a map, that’s not a very big distance… certainly not big enough to make out a curve of something as big as our planet.
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So if I’m looking down on a horizon stretched 500 miles (250 east + west), according to what they say, I should see 166497.53 feet of visible curvature. That’s 31.5 miles of BALL that I should SEE! I could see mountain ranges from the plane… I saw the peaks of the Rockies as we flew over Colorado… why didn’t those all just look flat?
The Mt. Everest facts just prove the point to me that NOWHERE on earth can you see this curvature. We can get so high, and never see a wink of it! Very interesting.
Anyway, we don’t need to go on, I was just pretty fascinated by what I saw since I haven’t flown since I was about 3!
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Me and @rspillers are headed to the Louisiana coast this weekend to load up on trout and reds! We’ll also be carrying along some instruments for some evening entertainment…will hopefully be posting some fish pics here in a few days!
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Looking out on the one side of the flight window it is flat, on the other side of the flight through the window it is flat too. Imagine the flight takes a 360 degree turn, I’m sure it would be flat in all the directions! If so, how come?! Earth a multi-sided polygon?? Or is it simply spherical given that all the edges are at about equidistance. 
Qatar Airways flight was cool, they had front, rear and downward cameras!
OK, let’s assume this is correct. 31.5 miles of viewable horizon on a ball that’s 24901 miles in circumference. So you’re seeing 0.1265% of the earth’s horizon. That’s not even close to a sample size big enough to extrapolate what’s going on beyond what you can see.
But let’s look at your flight path. You can see it here.
Notice how the path looks curved on the flat map? The airline industry is highly competitive with super low margins. They’ll take the shortest path from A to B every time it’s possible. If you take that map and put it on a globe, you’ll see that the curve becomes a straight line. You can see the concept here.
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Man, that sounds like a lot of fun! Hope you guys have a blast!
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Me, @rspillers & Wild Bill had a good time on the coast! We got into a school of sheepshead on the 2nd day and had a ball. We got some pickin’ done in the cabin, too.
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A fishy story all carp and no herring to speak of. 
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Don’t know what this comment means, but perhaps a thank you is in order?
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It means, it looks like you guys had a lot of fun fishing. And of course thanks for sharing
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Just got back from Bryan Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp! It’s hard to know where to start sharing highlights. Such an incredible experience and gathering of bluegrass guitar pickers!
This is my favorite from the official camp photos that I’ve seen so far! Jake and me backstage at the NC Guitar Celebration Concert.
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Seemed like an amazing time from all the photos and vids I saw! I’m excited to have Jake on Banjo Ben Live later this month.
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