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We've used Rick Steves' books for a number of years. One no longer in print is Europe in 2 to 22 days. We used the 22 day itinerary and expanded on it when we took the kids there in 1992. We used his book on the British Isles in 2001. In both cases he NEVER steered us wrong. Even his "if...

I'll believe it when I see it. Fortunately, I have the Seattle sectional on my subscription list.

Oops. Well, 1969 was a long time ago.

I still have the American Flyer train set that my brother and I got in the late 1950s. It's in a box somewhere in the garage.

Makes me glad I haven't gone skiing in nearly 30 years. I'd die of sticker shock now. I remember back in 1969 paying $9.00 for a lift ticket in Vermont (Cannon Mountain) and being shocked at the price, along with skiing hard and only getting in 5 runs all day. It took an hour to get back to...

N6TPT here. ARRL TA, VE and member of the ARRL EMC Committee. I haven't worked CW in decades, so I don't embarrass myself on SKN. And, yes, I do hold an Amateur Extra class ticket. As did my initial CFI, years ago. Did that help me use the radio on the plane? Are you kidding?

My brother got one of those one year. Probably the Christmas I got a cannon. Early 1960s.

I had a co-op job (similar to an internship) working for the contractor building Lower Granite Lock and Dam while I was an undergrad EE student at WSU back in 1974/75. Believe me, I worked on real projects. In fact, that final semester in 1975 the electrical engineer for the contractor quit...

SEA is fantastic. I've never had a bad experience with them, no matter where I was coming from or headed. And the controllers in the tower at the Class D I am based at (KOLM) are great, as well. Customer orientation is critical to getting hired there (contract tower). The only B space...

I had a car from Budget that I returned a week ago that had, among other things, stickers from Utah that had expired a year previously. This was in Florida. Fortunately, I did not get pulled over for the expired stickers.

Unfortunately, you are correct. We have similar nonsense in the state of Washington. Thanks to a number of left wing loons (and I will include my state senator in that bunch) we are now limited to purchasing magazines that will hold no more than 10 rounds. If you have legally owned magazines...

I remember landing in St. Peterburg back in 2000. LH, not a Russian airline. As we taxied in we went by a number of airliners that looked like they belonged in a boneyard. Then I realized that they were still flying those. No way!

I saw that one back in 2019. There are SR-71s that I've seen at the Museum of Flight at KBFI and one at the museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The one at the Museum of Flight has the drone on top of it, as well.

AOPA Foundation hits me up periodically for donations. Until they show me who they give money to, no way. I will not support anyone who opposes my Civil Rights. I've been a member of AOPA for over 20 years and have 2 hats to show for it, the newest was years ago. Maybe I need to stop the...

As a former poster here posted on a different board - King Charles III will now rename the Royal Mail. It will now be the Charles III Post Office - C3PO.

9/6 would have been Dad's 96th birthday. However, we lost him a number of years ago to Pancreatic cancer.

Or the Cherokee Arrow (as my Arrow POH calls it). That old sucker (Hershey bar wings) was finished flying the second the mains touched down. In all the years the club had that plane I never bounced a landing. Now, the 172 or 182? I can bounce the landings in those with the best of them. Not...

Isn't that the truth!? Especially this year.

That makes the $200/hr dual I paid for a 172 in Hawaii look "cheap". Of course, that was in 2007. Makes the club I belong to at KOLM look downright cheap today.

For reference, IIRC my original CFI flew turboprop aircraft when he flew for an airline. I'd ask him, but he passed away a number of years ago.