Once upon a time...
So I got an e-mail from the Dalai LLama. I thought he would share the secrets of true enlightenment with me. Instead, he was concerned that the Cubs were going to hire another manager instead of Joe Girardi.
Our Westbound adventure is scrubbed. Our Eastbound adventure is iffy.
We have a great group of POA pilots who were ready to make huge sacrifices in a show of solidarity. In my opinion, we are the last of the
truly free Americans. With over 3,000 views, it seems to me that hundreds of American pilots tuned in to our quest for the Coast-to-Coast holy grail.
THREE LESSONS LEARNED
1. If we had a passenger, it would have worked (Joe may have decided to drop out when Rob! did
). We may have to spoil Rob! or whoever our passenger is in January.
2. We may have to stretch out the number of day. If we limit the daily rides to 4 or 5 hours a day, it may be less stressful for our passenger. We may be better off trying to work around pilots' work schedules (Flying before or after work shifts on Monday through Friday.)
3. POA pilots are great. I can understand not wanting to fly a gnome. In fact, the next gnome I see, I am going to punch him right in the nose. I hate gnomes. Dang little smirking sons-o-guns.
PLANS FOR COAST-TO-COAST II "THE GNOME STRIKES BACK"
Rob!, when do you have off in January? What kind of
bribe, I
mean inducement, would it take to get you to make this trip? Honestly (sort-of), I can imagine that a series of small airplane flights with a band of rogue pilots could create a certain amount of stress. Especially if it puts you into a notorious party town like Gallup, NM, on a Saturday night during Octoberfest with no room, no bed and a striking resemblance to George Armstrong Custer.
I hope that we can have 20 Westbound pilots next time instead of 8. We should go...New York to Harrisburg to CGF to 9D9 to Mackinac Island to Duluth to MSN to Chicago to Saint Louis to Saint Joe, MO, to Pierre, SD to Denver to Billings to Helena to Seattle with a few other stops in between. Then a set of flights down the West Coast,then LA...ADS...Tune, etc., and then NYC.
But the fact that so many pilots are looking at this thread, tells me that we have to do something.
Someone suggested that we should put more effort into publicity. Maybe get EAA or Flying magazine to sponsor us. I bet that Dramamine would buy our leather jackets in return for some product placement during the CNN interviews.
Who wants a piece of Coast-to-Coast II? If we had Jennifer Lopez or Pamela Anderson as a passenger, none of our pilots would have backed out! Joe, make that call to J-LO, would ya?
Dave and Diana, I am going to help you with your aircraft repairs. Does anyone know how much it costs to ship duct tape?
Thanks, guys!
ApacheBob
