In late 1999, Christian Science Monitor correspondent Brad Knickerbocker was introduced via-e-mail to Arthur Hussey, an American living in Namibia. Arthur was looking for a flying companion to help ferry his single-engine Cessna from Windhoek to Fairbanks, Alaska. By April 2000, Brad, a former Navy pilot who flew jets off aircraft carriers, found himself sharing the cockpit with Arthur on an aerial odyssey. He documented his journey for the Monitor. A photo gallery, his daily logs, and the e-mail conversations he had with supporters—known and unknown—around the world can be viewed at: http://www.csmonitor.com/smallplane.
But Brad's was also a spiritual journey.
"Amid the mundane details and daily routine inside the Cessna cabin," he wrote in his essay before the journey began, "I expect there to be unforeseen revelations and epiphanies—about the world seen this unique way and perhaps about ourselves."
