It did float last night at Stone Ave. and Rutherford Rd.. We even had illumination shining up on it after dark, which worked out very nicely. We had a lot of honks and thumbs up, as well as a few sign-wavers, distributed some brochures and such. It was good exposure and plenty of Police and...
Yeah, that was weird. The Trooper said that he was neither giving us a warning or a ticket, but wanted to do a 'contact sheet' (I know, I know)... then he showed me the "ticket" form and said I am checking "Improper lane use" because nothing applies, we're just getting your information. So...
We did get one banner made that is twice the size of the blue one in the picture...it can be seen in the "balloon story" of Thursday morning. Definitely more visible! If Dr. Paul does well in SC, we'd like to put together a page to raise money for an actual Ron Paul balloon, which would be...
Liveandletlive, We were with plenty of billboards... not sure anything gets quite the attention of a hot air balloon in a tight spot. It was awesome. :-)
Jim is exactly right. That spot was chosen as traffic ALREADY backs up during that rush hour before the I-385/Woodruff Exit, and contains billboard advertising clearly intended to reach that traffic. Once traffic backed up further than normal, the balloon was promptly, and respectfully...