This is me in Georgia in 2006 with pilot Joe Garner and his Cessna 172. Mr. Joe Garner flew top cover for this part of the crane migration.

Mr. Garner let us fly with him on two different days. My dad was in the plane with us the first day. Mr. Garner's wife came with me in the plane on the second day. I was nine years old in this picture.

Do you wonder how I got so lucky? When I was 3, my dad and I came upon the crew where they'd landed in a field near our home. Ever since then, we get to see the crew every year.