The Fossett Search never ends

Updated on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 11:55 by mavenandmeddler

Last week I got an email alerting me to the air date of the latest in what will certainly be just one more speculative television feature - ‘Lost in the Nevada Triangle’ - about what may or may not have happened to famed aviator Steve Fossett on the Labor Day weekend of 2007.

I thought briefly of letting my readers know, but held back.

I was a part of that story, and have had plenty of bitter first hand experience of just how badly wrong a seemingly innocent ‘interview’ for the ‘truth’ can go. It can turn out to be a career destroyer.

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The rock star mojo is back: ITN and National Geographic come to Reno

The other day at work, LC asked me why I was being so agreeable about something or other.

“Where’s the rock star that I used to know?” she said, referring to the me of the Steve Fossett search, with my officious little face popping up all over the international media, giving them what for.

There was a bit of swagger in my step during those heady days, but time marches on.

I think I got just a tiny bit of the old mojo back on Sunday, when a film crew from London’s ITN came to town.

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