These days, there are a lot of ways to take to the sky, but for Ravenna Balloon A-Fair Balloon Meister Paul Suttle, there’s nothing like a hot air balloon.
“You look up, you see a helicopter, you see a plane flying by, you watch it for a second or two and then you’re right back to what you were doing,” Suttle said. “When a balloon floats by, almost everybody just stops what they’re doing and watches. There’s something magical about man’s earliest form of aviation. It still fascinates people. Balloons are for fun; you just go to fly and look out at the scenery.”
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