A few months ago, we headed up to the Berkshires on a beautiful night to photograph Rinker Buck for Flight Training Magazine. Buck’s a writer and adventure junkie, who achieved fame back in 1966 by flying a Piper Cub plane across the US with older brother Kern when they were only 15 and 17.  Yikes!

Buck’s book Flight of Passage is an intimate story of this cross country adventure.  They had no radio and no lights.  They just headed west following rivers and landmarks all the way from New Jersey down to Texas and over the mountains west into southern California.  Later on they found out they were the youngest ever to fly across the US.  Our son Sebbie is reading Rinker’s book now…note to Sebbie (and Jude): don’t even think about it!

We photographed Rinker next to a classic yellow Piper Cub in Great Barrington MA up the road from Buck’s home in Norfolk CT.  Rinker’s a great writer and storyteller…he wrote for the Hartford Courant for many years.  And he’s a really nice guy.  Rinker’s latest adventure was traversing the Oregon Trail from my home town of Kansas City to Oregon in a covered wagon pulled by mules…look out for that book coming soon!