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Caption: up a napa valley balloon ride
Caption: we took a quick trip north for the holiday weekend to Napa Valley.
food, wine, and balloons!
4:30 am wake up came early, but as you'll see it was completely worth it.
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Caption: I'm a sucker for lines, patterns and shadows
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Caption: our ground team tracked and followed us the entire time. like storm chasers. it was awesome.
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Caption: down
Caption: the final few images show a tiny bit of the manual process it takes to deflate a 2,000 pound
hot air balloon.
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Caption: open the hatch in the top for hot air to escape
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Caption: the team wrings out the air by twisting up the balloon from the basket to the top.
(think of getting all the water out of a giant wet towel)
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Caption: balloons above the valley
Napa, CA
balloonrides.com
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shot with Nikon, Fuiji, iPhone