I’ve always been captivated by hot air balloons, although I’ve never dared ride in one. No engine? No me. For those in search of a screen saver, may I recommend Googling images of “Grand Est Mondial ...

Round up a gaggle of single-digit friends. Sit them down in front of your flat screen TV. Have balloons on strings hanging throughout the room Show them a foreign film. In French. They will not need a ...

The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky.” “Up, Up and Away” by Jimmy Webb, recorded by The 5th ...

“Up, up and away, my beautiful, my beautiful balloon…,” sang the 5th Dimension back in the Age of Aquarius. But today the plethora of balloons being released into the atmosphere is becoming an ...

On Jan. 25, a helium-filled balloon carrying two co-pilots — one American and one Russian — left Saga, Japan. A record-breaking six days, 16 hours, 37 minutes and 6,646 miles later, Troy Bradley and ...

"Give me 24 hours, and I can figure out how to make it," said Irene Brinker, owner of Wild Party Balloons, who can make balloon motorcycles, pacifiers, fish, trees and "balloon buddies" like the New ...

Sherman, then 40, the owner of Naturally High Balloon Company, suffered from intermittent depression. He took heavy doses of prescription painkillers to combat chronic pain brought on by a congenital ...

The Albuquerque Interna­tional Balloon Fiesta should be on everyone's life list. To see the scores of colorful and oddly shaped hot air balloons glowing across the New Mexico sky is nothing short of ...