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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The search for Steve Fossett: Will it never end?

Well, well, well. That was certainly an interesting version of Steve Fossett’s untimely demise, which premiered on Discovery Channel this evening. The only part that I couldn’t quibble with, having been so much a part of that bit of history, is that we may never know exactly what happened. 

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The Search for Steve Fossett

Well, the two compadres were back in the saddle again today, as Trooper Chuck Allen ( Nevada Highway Patrol Public Information Officer) and I ( the lead Public Information Officer for the Steve Fossett search of Sept. 2007) made the key note presentation at the 2008 National Information Officers Association national conference, held in Sparks, Nevada.

As I told Chuck afterward: ‘we’re still Rock Stars’ But truly, the morning that Trooper Allen walked in to the Command Post to offer me his help was the day I pulled triple 7’s ( it’s a Nevada thing ). I absolutely lucked out getting the best possible PIO help available for a search and media circus of that magnitude.

Needless to say, the presentation went very, very well indeed and we both received congratulations all around. Hopefully, somebody took a picture!