So..... a few of us PoA-ers met up today and we went down memory lane with 6Y9. Since this will be our 20th fly in...I would like to start a list of all of those who have made it...and with that any memories, one liners, things that happened that you don't want to remember but can't forget, etc. (eman you can't play along yet because we have yet to see you there). It doesn't have to be explained to the masses either. What happens in Sidnaw stays in Sidnaw.
From our first humble fly in with Grant, Leslie, Nick, Jesse, Richard, Barb, Ed, Bruce,(...and have I forgotten anyone else?) ...to this upcoming fly in that will mark our 20th, the memories that we have are priceless.
Me!!! I was there for the "grand reopening" August 5-6, 2006 and the first Labor Day fly-in about a month later. Looking at my logbook, I've been there 8 times by air, and one by truck.
Some fond memories:
* Crashing in the "second cabin" with
@SkyHog and a couple others at one of the first fly-ins, and freezing my @$$ off in a tent for some others.
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@One Short completing her goal of landing at every airport in Michigan at 6Y9 on her birthday. I wonder how she's doing these days.
* One of my favorite flights ever: We'd been flying earlier in the day so the planes were all preflighted, and without cell service there's no way to call FSS for a briefing. We'd been tearing around the woods on the ATVs for a while, and it was getting to be "the golden hour" before sunset when we got back into town. We were trying to figure out what to do next - Eat, or something else - And I said "Well, the sun's still up, we could fly" half-jokingly. We looked at one another for a few seconds, somebody said "Let's go!" and 5 minutes later we were in the air, which by this point in the day was smooth and still and the sun being low in the sky just made everything beautiful.
* Lady in Red. 'nuff said.
* Helping Tony taxi the Citabria to the local gas station to fill it up. Didn't we end up on the front page of the L'Anse Sentinel for that?
* Quote of the weekend from 2009: "If the pilot's lit, does the runway need to be?"
* Singing in the school late into the night
* Seeing some absolutely spectacular auroras in 2016, that prompted me to write this:
"Everyone needs to experience this.
I'm in the UP, spending the weekend with friends at a little grass airstrip in the tiny town of Sidnaw, Michigan, and I got to watch a spectacular display of nature and mankind tonight. No camera can capture this, you have to come out into nature and see it for yourself.
The northern sky glows with aurora borealis. It's greenish and alien. It moves around eerily, not really moving perceptibly most of the time you're looking at it, yet somehow managing to change and move constantly. Towers of light streak skyward while the horizon just glows, silhouetteing the trees at the other side of the strip.
Up above, billions of stars light the sky. The Milky Way is plainly visible. The tail end of the Perseid meteor shower adds streaks to the sky, while an occasional satellite races around its orbit. Closer to the horizon, stars twinkle so much they look like non-moving airplanes, complete with red and white flashes. Dozens of jets flicker as they cross the sky on their way to everywhere. It's so quiet that you can sometimes hear the far-off roar despite the distance. When it's gone, even the bugs seem to be sleeping. Or maybe they're as awed by the stars and aurorae as I am.
I feel small."
. Hard to beat!
