Read on for one version of the remedy. I start to feel the first subtle symptoms of my annual affliction. Get together with a handful or more of similarly stricken friends and proceed to high ground, preferably a spot which affords you at least a 180 degree view into the distance when you are facing north. Success is somehow sweeter when it is shared. Likewise, disappointment or even downright failure is not as bitter.
Success is somehow sweeter when it is shared.
You may chose as your vantage point a proven site such as Mt. Wachusett in central Massachusetts, Hawk Mountain in eastern Pennsylvania, or Hawk Ridge in Duluth, Minnesota. Or pick a place, as yet undiscovered, based on reasons as concrete as convenience or as intangible as intuition. Keep in mind that the flyway is a wide path rather than a thin line, and it is certainly not as well defined as, let's say, an interstate highway. All rights reserved.