To get to my friend Louie’s house this time of year, you have to ride across the river on a 500′ cable. Louie was the featured builder in our book Home Work. Click here to see the pages on Louie; (you can click on each of the photos shown to enlarge them).
Louie is shown here getting the bosun’s chair ready for the trip. The platform is 30′ above the ground. The other photo is one he took when I was about halfway across the river. (The large object coming down from top is the cable.) It’s a thrill to go sailing across the turbulent water.
We had a goose for dinner, with Louie’s home-made zinfandel that night. Now I had to get back across the river, dark and foggy night. I put on my headlight, climbed the tower on the house side of the river, locked the chair on the cable and with not a small amount of trepidation, let go, sailing out into the black night. It was fantastic, like I was in good hands. Came into the landing platform at a trot, and walked through the fields to Louie’s shop, where I stay.
