• Three people sit on the edge of a pickup truck's open rear door. Inside the truck's bed is the wicker basket of a balloon with two people inside. An inflated yellow-and-orange balloon in the shape of an animal can be seen in the distance.
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    Dobbs’ Wild Fire chase crew sits in a pickup truck after a flight. Dobbs raced motorcycles until he was 30, when his girlfriend took him to a balloon event. “I was hooked,” he says.

  • Three people sit on the edge of a pickup truck's open rear door. Inside the truck's bed is the wicker basket of a balloon with two people inside. An inflated yellow-and-orange balloon in the shape of an animal can be seen in the distance.

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October 08, 2023

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Jim Preston

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