Pillar to the Sky
“The poor kid’s enthusiasm had dampened significantly in the last hour and a half. On the flight from D.C. to Seattle she had stayed up the entire way, glued to the jump seat in the cockpit, then sleeping most of the day while her parents toured what was basically an ordinary-looking office building before taking off that evening on the next leg of their journey out to Honolulu. Victoria was again glued to the jump seat up front, chatting with the pilot and Franklin while Gary and Eva luxuriated... in actual real pull-down beds aft.
Erich had been left behind in Seattle; though offered a seat, the elderly gentleman begged off, and Gary felt it a wise move. Jumping halfway around the world, even for someone half his age, would take its toll; and after the fiasco of the hearing with Proxley, he was asked to come back to pour oil on the troubled waters, since the senator was now making noises about entirely wiping out NASA’s advanced research division.
After refueling in Honolulu, it was on to one of the most remote island nations in the world, Kiribati, once known as the Gilberts, approximately halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, its more than seventy tiny coral atolls neatly bisected by the equator.MoreLess
Erich had been left behind in Seattle; though offered a seat, the elderly gentleman begged off, and Gary felt it a wise move. Jumping halfway around the world, even for someone half his age, would take its toll; and after the fiasco of the hearing with Proxley, he was asked to come back to pour oil on the troubled waters, since the senator was now making noises about entirely wiping out NASA’s advanced research division.
After refueling in Honolulu, it was on to one of the most remote island nations in the world, Kiribati, once known as the Gilberts, approximately halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, its more than seventy tiny coral atolls neatly bisected by the equator.MoreLess
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