Experience the Wonder!!
Imagine! As the dew covered meadow shrinks silently away, the panorama of the earth becomes a breathtaking view of beauty and life. You have just taken off on a wondrous flight of fancy and are floating silently and magically in the soft breezes that move you along. The perception of life and your role in it now take on new realizations.
We welcome you to the wonderful world of ballooning in Maryland! Our champagne flights take place over beautiful Howard & Carroll Counties at sunrise and two hours before sunset. Capture the moment and treat yourself and a loved one to a most rewarding experience on "DREAMPUFF BALLOON" or "DREAMSTAR BALLOON".
Preakness Celebration Balloon Festival
May 13-15, 2010 ...details
Book your flight for our 2010 flying season Now!!
A $75.00 deposit per person will hold that date for you. Good dates will be going fast. Email or call.
Or, Create on line animated-musical gift certificate in minutes. It will be available immediately for showing.
Ron Broderick is your pilot and has an FAA commercially rated license for flying hot air balloons. He is a member of the:
Balloon Federation of America,
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn(AOPA),
John Wise Balloon Society.
We participate each year in several Balloon Festivals on the East Coast including:
Preakness Celebration Balloon Festival in Howard County Maryland in May
Sky Jam Pa. in York County PA in June
Green Grove Gardens Balloon Festival in Greencastle PA in July
New York State Festival of Balloons in Dansville NY in September.
Past Newsworthy Events
May 14, 2008 - Sandra Shaw of WBAL-TV rides in Dreamstar at Turf Valley Resort.
May 21, 2007 - Sue Palka of WTTG FOX5 TV in DC takes a balloon ride in DreamStar. See Video
August 23, 2007 - Holly Morris of WTTG Fox5 TV comes to Ramblin Pines RV Park to take a balloon flight
ANNOUNCEMENT:
WE WON
On July 22, 2010, Comptroller of the Treasury has withdrawn the Admissions ans Amusement Tas Assessment levied against us.
Our long standing community service of providing donations and contributions(silent auctions,etc.) of Hot Air Balloon Flights is now ended. This is because Maryland Comptroller's Dept. is imposing and enforcing a state admissions and amusement tax (7.5-10%) on our business in direct violation of a federal law and a US Supreme Court ruling. Comptrollers refuses to recognize that 'States are preempted by federal statute from assessing any taxes on gross receipts of aircraft flying in 'air commerce'. Further, they do not want to realize that a hot air balloon is an aircraft regulated by the FAA.
To read about this illegal back tax and future tax on my hot air balloon company, please review www.BallooningUSA.com/taxmatter and give me your thoughts! Now let's see how long it takes to get my previously paid taxes retured.!!
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BEAUTIFUL BALLOON EXPERIENCE
In the magic of the morning,
Looking around the large launch field.
Arrays of hot-air balloons inflate,
And their colors are gradually revealed.
Lifting off in the wicker gondola,
I start my heavenward ascension.
The idyllic landscape soon stretches out
To a stupendous dimension;
There is so much pristine scenery –
The rolling hills are dotted with pines.
As the earth seems to slowly rotate below,
I take in outdoor designs.
Floating serenely for a while,
Suspended in the wind’s highway,
I’m in panoramic harmony with nature;
And my mind is led astray.
The rejuvenating air is amazingly quiet
Soaring now over some hayfields and crops.
As I decline back towards the ground
I let my balloon dip to kiss the treetops.
Oh, what a time this has been;
My feelings are in complete commotion.
It’s just one thing that cannot be measured,
By any mere transient emotion.
from "Till The Dreaming’s Done: “Poems Crafted For Thinking People"
by Poet Andrew Harley of Frederick Maryland.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
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