I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to fly when I was little.
I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.
When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.
From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around - literally flying in and out of bowls - that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.
My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.