This is a follow up story for Envi Adventures. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published over 6 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

Back in 2016, I had this incredible idea about how to increase my stress levels and work harder than ever before, and that is when I started Envi Adventures.

Hey there, my name is Corey Rust, and in 2017 after many opposing opinions and attitudes toward my idea of starting a flight tour business, the first people showed up, hopped on the plane, and took off for a flight on Columbia River Gorge near Portland. That was April 1st nearly 5 years ago. How’s that for proving people wrong?

If you haven’t seen or read previous articles on Starter Story about Envi, let me quickly recount the lead-up to how this whole thing started and how it all came about.

I had the idea, which is always a good first step, to start an airplane flight tour business in the Portland, Oregon area. No one was doing it, there were a lot of amazing things to see nearby, so I thought, ‘why not?’

Everyone I talked to for advice or tips or help essentially told me it would never work. And that’s not hyperbole, the exact responses were:

“Wish you the best, but nobody is going to come out to the...

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