You may have heard: The blimp boosting presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will not make it to Boston as planned this weekend. It will cruise the Carolinas to avoid bad weather up north.
Libertarian lift-off is scheduled for 8AM Friday, December 14th. The 197-foot-long craft will leave Elizabeth City, NC, fly over Raleigh and overnight in Charlotte. The dirigible drifts to Columbia, SC on Saturday to spend the Sabbath, then moseys north Monday morning.
The flight plan involves a Fayetteville fly-over, but the lighter-than-air-craft will apparently not challenge the restricted airspace of Washington, DC, as initially thought.
I’m going to watch the sky anyway. The way this campaign is going, anything could happen.
Image by Mike Licht. Klaatu barada nikto. Ta, Missus Kucinich. 
Download from Mike’s Flickr site.
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