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I rented from Hertz on Sunday at SJC (after arriving from PDX). No problem and I wound up renting whatever I wanted from President's Circle. I'll drop it off there after our meetings end on Friday. No problem with Hertz anywhere I've rented from them in the world.

Football is just something to do before and after half time.

We had a refrigerator made by LG, but sold by Sears. Replaced it under service contract when it failed in a part made of unobtainium. The replacement failed a few years later. Sears offered us another unit or cash. We took the cash and bought a different refrigerator that has been flawless...

Another option to consider is joining an existing club. That's what I did as a student pilot (25 years ago). I'm still a member of that club and it is the lowest cost way of flying. Note, I DID NOT say cheapest. As I'm sure you are aware, there is nothing cheap about flying (other than the...

On another trans-pac flight (Tokyo to San Fransisco this time) we arrived at SFO so early that we had to wait on board the aircraft for passport control to open for the day. So much for being early due to a great tail wind.

Sounds like me when driving on I-80 across southern Wyoming. I swear I could get off on an overpass and reverse course and still have a headwind.

I remember riding as self-loading cargo on a pressurized mailing tube across the Pacific one time. The indicated airspeed was 550 MPH and the tail wind at altitude was 200 MPH. If ground speed had been airspeed (darn it, it wasn't!!!) we would have been supersonic. Oh well...

It may be that the club rules were written a long time ago, before flight following was a "thing". I agree that flight following would be far more useful, for a number of reasons.

Dave, It is hard to give up. I'm 72, I know I won't make it to 50 years, but it's been fun so far. Keep up the posting, you have much to share with the rest of us. And I'm glad you are enjoying the cruise.

The thread from this site doesn't seem to have anything to do with Gryder. That said, what a tool.

Or just stay in Lauterbrunnen. That's what we did in 1983. It is lovely.

Our club requires that we fill out and file a flight plan if we are flying more than 50 nm from KOLM. Nothing said about flight following as a substitute.

At the risk of sounding like I don't know what is going on, what is the issue with Gryder?

Somehow I doubt I would notify my estate of this requirement. And how would the FAA know?

As I recall, any Morrill grant school (Washington State University is one) is required to offer ROTC. You don't have to be a ROTC cadet, but the school must offer it as an option. A fast way to find out if a school is one is to look at their list of buildings. If they have a Morrill Hall...

So would mine, if that body didn't belong to me (and she didn't wake up with a similar aged body in place of the one she has now).

A very reasonable approach listed here. I am an NRA certified Range Safety Officer and I also have a CPL (as it is called in Washington state). I cannot agree with the statement that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need one and not have it more strongly. And it is important...

I remember being called a baby killer when I was in ROTC in college. We were under orders when in uniform to tolerate all abuse said in our direction. The unofficial orders where when out of uniform we don't care what you do to them. The interesting thing was that every time I heard someone...

I'm 72 and had cataract surgery earlier this year. It really is nothing. And compared with what my great grandmother experienced in the 1960s, it is really NOTHING. I do, however, wear glasses. Fixed focal length lenses are covered by my insurance. Multiple focal length lenses are not (and...

Thank you. Amen! This old boomer would love to wake up tomorrow with a 40 y/o body, as well.