I was so excited to hear about a zeppelin at Sonoma County airport that I went for a ride on it before 24 hours went by. Howard saw the zeppelin at the airport on Thursday and the next morning I signed up for the 3 p.m. cruise to Guerneville and back. Buoyant flight feels more like scuba diving than flying in a plane. The lift-off feels more like rising to the surface of the water using a buoyancy compensator. Landing is so gentle that there is hardly any sensation — so different from the loud and pressured landing of an airplane. The airship never actually touches down — it just hovers as new passengers board and departing ones disembark simultaneously so that the weight load stays constant. For more, see this article in the Press Democrat.