Flight of the Aeronauts - Tahoe Quarterly

Flight of the Aeronauts - Tahoe Quarterly

On the scorched, sprawling streets of Las Vegas, a boy on a bicycle looks up from his handlebars to see a hot air balloon soaring low on the horizon. The improbable ball of heat and fabric hovers gracefully in the sky, a complete counterbalance, if not outright contradiction, to the angular aggression of the loud commercial jets carrying thousands of tourists to his home city every day—tourists who come to stare at a screen instead of the sky.