I am very excited to find this site as I have often pondered from my seat (wedged between sweaty, nervous travellers) questions about the noble and under-appreciated pilots that bring us to our exciting destinations. While I was growing up as a youth in Salina, Kansas I used to ride in a Continental Trailways bus to Wichita—the “Big City”!! I always wanted to see what the bus driver saw, I’d race excitedly toward the front of the bus and stand behind the yellow line and try to get a glimpse of the man in uniform sitting tall and proud behind the wheel of this ship of the plains… What had he seen across the USA? Who had he met? Maybe even famous people? I was so awestruck by their power and dignity.

As I travel in skies to business destinations (I sell commercial video displays) I wonder what the bus drivers of the sky see and do… What do you have in common with your brothers that piloted the four-wheeled silver chariots of the past? Do you feel less in touch with your patrons while encapsulated in your cockpits? Do you sit on the same cushioned Taxi Driver beads? Do you bring a thermos of coffee? Do you get to play country music on the radio?

I’m interested to hear from you all about your “road stories”, as I’m sure some of the other readers of this site are. Please regale us with some of the lonely poetry that you experience while bringing us from city to city!

Respectfully,
Washington