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Flying Into the Sun: Surfboards, Airplanes and Weed Across the Mexican Border (English Edition)

Flying Into the Sun: Surfboards, Airplanes and Weed Across the Mexican Border (English Edition)

porPaul Ogier
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Karen Allen
5,0 de 5 estrelas The Way We Were
Avaliado no México em 29 de agosto de 2020
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If you love to ‘ live’ stories of Mexico, drugs & prisons this book is for you. A true story of youth, surfing, taking opportunities and risks. Great descriptions - I ‘lived’ the book! It does help that I live in Mexico so am more familiar than many with the geography, Oaxaca, Zapotecas.
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Arctic Sky
2,0 de 5 estrelas Not that interesting
Avaliado no Canadá em 12 de março de 2019
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If you’re interested in a book about the adventures of a pilot who smuggled pot via aircraft this is not it.
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5,0 de 5 estrelas I will never look at an airline captain the same way after reading this book
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 24 de novembro de 2018
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On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair; Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air . . . . Oh, the good ol' days of red-haired Mexican pot in the 70s. Paul Ogier tells an engaging and entertaining story about his youthful misadventures as a drug runner at a time when people were discovering the joys of marijuana. Not only is "Flying Into The sun" well written, but there is a quiet wit about it that had me laughing out loud at several sections. As a coming of age story, this is certainly one of the best. It's insightful and has its touching moments. The ending left me both sad and uplifted that the main character had finally reached a level of maturity that set him on another path to his dreams. But the next time I fly, I will be wondering what youthful indiscretions the captain had committed!

Patricia Griffon
Author of "Blind Reason"
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Rick Spell
4,0 de 5 estrelas Growing up in Texas & Visiting Mexico for Drugs and Surf
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 3 de outubro de 2021
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I thought I was getting a story of a drug smuggler. And while he did smuggle drugs, it was on a very small scale even when it involved a few months in a Mexican jail (good read to see their prisons, or at least this one, is much better than in America). Really, it's a coming of age story of surfing in Mexico and falling in to bringing back a little grass to doing it a few times. His partners change as former partners are in different stages of their lives. Interestingly, he was doing construction work but reading the book notes you see that he eventually became a commercial pilot. That's interesting as his initial drug trips were by car until he ventured to non-sophisticated, small-time drug transportation by small planes.

Overall, an enjoyable read that I recommend.
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Eric Knight
5,0 de 5 estrelas Loved it start to finish!
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 8 de dezembro de 2018
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From meeting with Indians in the Mexican mountains to paddling surfboards across the Rio Grande after midnight. I felt like I was along for the ride! And I learned to fly!!

I am a Floridian who spent over a decade living and surfing in Costa Rica so I can relate to this book. I first got a hold of an advance copy on a Facebook Surfer group about a year ago In Costa. I just ordered the print copy to have the official version and I love the front cover.
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Eric Knight
5,0 de 5 estrelas Loved it start to finish!
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 8 de dezembro de 2018
From meeting with Indians in the Mexican mountains to paddling surfboards across the Rio Grande after midnight. I felt like I was along for the ride! And I learned to fly!!

I am a Floridian who spent over a decade living and surfing in Costa Rica so I can relate to this book. I first got a hold of an advance copy on a Facebook Surfer group about a year ago In Costa. I just ordered the print copy to have the official version and I love the front cover.
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Jim Moore
5,0 de 5 estrelas A most enjoyable, albeit, breath-holding story
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 25 de janeiro de 2019
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I began Flying Into the Sun with my pilot's cap on, expecting a tale of youthful bounds-pushing and flying anecdotes. Well, by page two I realized a lot more than bounds-pushing was unfolding, and the flying I expected was turning into chemically-enhanced and Mexican-grown flying of the kind best enjoyed by a campfire on a secluded beach. By the story's halfway point, I was as deep into the marijuana, hash, and coke world of smugglers and risk-takers as I'd ever been, and loving every moment of Paul Ogier's narrow escapes. Until escape was no longer an option.

I have been to Oaxaca, Mexico, but always seemed to miss the tour of the jail so darkly fashioned in Ogier's deft recounting. Let me just say that it would not be on my top ten list of South of the Border experiences (and I know better now than to throw myself on the skills of shady attorneys). But even at its most desperate moments, the book never abandons the hero's opportunity for rescue and, maybe, redemption of some sort.

The storyline returns to my world of flying in the passages on flight training and moving on to larger and more complex aircraft...but even here, in the 1970s world the author knows best, he keeps the reader connected to the undercurrent (maybe underbelly would be a better word) of the book's raison d'etre: taking care of business in ever more sophisticated, and dangerous ways. If you are a pilot, you will find yourself back in the cockpit on your first solo cross country...you know, the one you screwed up but managed to survive? In Ogier's case, managing to survive airborne and car-borne cross countries was both physically and financially dicey.

The author's knowledgeable weaving of songs of the 70s (with a backhand to disco) to add color and texture to Flying Into the Sun is simply brilliant. Even though I have a decade or so on Ogier, I was drawn deeper into the story by his incisive details of the bands and the sounds and the clothes and habits of that time. But this not a book about flying or music or even youthful risk-taking and consequences. This is a timeless story of an insatiable appetite that drives some elements of virtually all societies to create markets and methods to feed that often-deadly hunger.

Whether by car, van, truck, plane, or surfboard, the world Paul Ogier delivers in words eloquent and funny, frightening and emotional, on wings he knows so well, is a world best comprehended in this most enjoyable book.
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William Cramer
5,0 de 5 estrelas Outstanding!
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 1 de janeiro de 2019
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Living in Houston and being a long haired survivor of the 70’s, I really appreciated this book. It brought back a lot of memories from that era, a time when rock music and long hair were rebellious. I find the book to be very well written and I was glued from start to finish. It definitely left me wanting more and hoping for a movie version in the future. Well done, Paul!
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Brian
5,0 de 5 estrelas The real deal right here!
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 1 de janeiro de 2019
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One of the best books I’ve ever read! Right up there with In Search of Captain Zero! Paul takes you on a journey that really explores what is important in life and what it means to go for it and succeed at something that is important. Paul did a great job of making the reader feel as if he was riding along in the car through Mexico, meeting connections or standing in the prison yard in Oaxaca. This book is definitely one for the ages and will hopefully be a movie someday!
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Randle Brashear
5,0 de 5 estrelas I have ample reason to believe this is a true and accurate account
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 11 de fevereiro de 2020
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The writing is concise, grammar perfect and dialogue perfect.
I happen to know about the Oaxacan landrace of marijuana from that era, as I consumed a lot of it, and by virtue of living in Austin during those same years, may well have smoked some of the same pot that Mr. Ogier brought back to Houston. His description of the "rainbow" marijuana is the same as what I saw and consumed. I saw it dried and a live mature plant.
I myself was employed by a smuggler of Acapulco gold and Sinaloa purple. We used trucks with campers and crossed it at Big Bend, which was then a state park. I never ventured to the state of Oaxaca until later in life as a turista. The author's description of the area is accurate. I would add the fact that the architecture of Oaxaca City reminded me of NoLa's French Quarter, with its overhanging second story porches lined with wrought iron railings. We never got caught or had any interaction with the Federales or local law enforcement. We never combined tourism with our dope runs. It was strictly business.
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I can't resist recounting a story about the Oaxacan. In '72 I had quit the smuggling and was working for my dad in central Texas. I had a small farm outside town at the time. One day I came home and my dad was there. He was inside my house gathering up about two pounds of Oaxacan tops I'd purchased in Austin with the intent of burning them. We went out back, where he did just that. Thing is, I was a hippy but also a Texas redneck and a heavy drinker at the time. I had guns, which a carelessly left around the house. In the same rooms as I had the pot was a Remington semiautomatic .22. I'd dropped a box of 22 rounds on the4 floor and never bothered to pick them up. A round had got in with the pot, unbeknown to us. It went off in the fire and hit my dad in his stomach. The wound wasn't serious, as it never went past the fat of his belly. But I had to drive him to the ER to get the bullet removed.
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Christopher Cantara
5,0 de 5 estrelas Nonstop Adventure!
Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 3 de dezembro de 2018
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What a great story !! Best of all, its a true real life story! Not a product of someones imagination! I was mesmerized by the airplanes, surfboards, weed, 70's music notations, VW Bugs (Had many growing up, where is that Bug now??) Just a great fun read that leaves you wishing for more! Hope to see more from this author!! I was bumming when I was approaching the last pages!!
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