Flying High: Lift Off (Part Two)

Preface:  Read this only after you’ve read ‘Flying High’ (my last post).  This is truly a Part Two.  I didn’t just throw it in the title for any ol’ reason.  

What I thought wasn’t going to happen until July happened in March. 

When I published ‘Flying High’ on March 1^st I never thought this story would have a ‘Part Two’ a couple of weeks later.  Yep.  It all happened that fast.    

I just spent three days in wine country in Sonoma {California} with the pilot’s son.  Up until the day I published ‘Flying High,’ I didn’t actually think I’d ever call him.  As I finished writing the post, however, I realized I had no choice but to call him.  What good would this story be if I never even gave it a chance?  So that’s what I did.

I gave it a chance... because life is worth taking risks.  

To my surprise, the pilot had already told his son about me.  I believe his words were, “If a girl from San Diego calls you, answer your phone.”  The son obliged. 

The next week flew by filled with flirty text messages and lengthy chats on the phone.  At the end of the unforeseen week, I realized fate had blessed me with three days off in a row on the horizon (in the hotel/restaurant industry, this is a very rare occurrence).  We saw it as a sign and decided to meet.

It was a whirlwind trip from start to finish.  From the potentially awkward first encounter to the embrace of the goodbye, it was an adventure never to be forgotten. 

No matter where you’re from, friends, strangers and men and women of all ages love a great story of how two people meet.   On the beautiful day we decided to wine taste our way through the vineyards of Sonoma, we couldn’t help ourselves but to share our serendipitous story with others we encountered.  At each winery, the wine tasting room staff always asks guests where they are from (just as I do waiting tables in my popular tourist city).  Of course, after I said San Diego and he said Sonoma, the inevitable follow-up question arose, “How did you two meet?”  We shared our intriguing story of envy to everyone who poured us wine that day (and possibly a few others eavesdropped with a smile).  

View from Viansa Winery.  Sonoma, CA

March 13, 2014

‘Serving Humanity’ isn’t the appropriate blog to dig into the details of last week’s adventure with the pilot’s son.  But if I could actually fill in all of the details of my journey this past week, it would be a story with Pulitzer prize-winning potential.  

And until I decide to publish the details elsewhere, only the pilot’s son and myself will embrace the details of that privileged information… and what’s to come.   ~ HK ~