Tip-Off #6 - Night Vision

Seeing without Knowing

I loved the night skies of Caracas, a city nestled in a valley of the Andes. I was in third grade, newly arrived from Detroit, used to the smoke and flames rising from the Chrysler factory down the street, a stranger to the silent expanse of space above.

I was awestruck by the skies I discovered in Caracas, particularly on cloudless nights. Looking up, t…