Jay Honeck wrote:

This is another concept
I cannot understand -- how can someone fly without becoming hooked on the
magic of flight? --

That has become very obvious. Few people I know feel that way.

so perhaps I'll never be able to fathom these folks.

I'd say you never will.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.