Hey Linda! It's nice to see you back here. I understand that you've been really busy lately.
*Thanks! I hope to check back more often!*
Well, aren't you sweet! It's been a pleasure working with you.We need more enthusiastic and positive pilots like you in the aviation world.
Will do! If we can't connect in May, then I hope to fly up to visit you sometime this summer.
*That sounds great - your new map is quite a bit further away!*
BTW, congratulations on passing your written!
Barb
Be sure and let me know when Diana is coming to town. We definetly will get a gang together in MI to welcome her.
Dave
Thanks for the suggestions.
I may order one of those. Our OSH tents aren't that nice, since we normally have a tarp over the wing and they don't need to be as sturdy. This kind of camping will be different and I want a better tent like the ones you all have suggested. Well, here is the current map of possible stops. About 7,000 miles and 96 stops. It changes daily.
Once I get to PA it will be a BIG question mark after I stay with Missa (if she's home 
). I hear that PA is really pretty and want to spend some time exploring it. Some of the Citabria guys have offered to help me out (meaning *lead me by the hand*) with New England once I get there . , so he has helped me find a safer route.
One thing that has changed is the start date. I just found out that the aerobatic contest in Claremore, OK, the Okie Twistoff, has been canceled, so now I can start out around May 1st. If the carburetor is done by then.
I was also thinking about flying the Shenandoah Valley. Anybody done that? Would it be worthwhile? Does anyone know of interesting airports to stop at in the valley? I remember seeing it briefly as a child visiting my grandfather at his home in the hills near Monterey, VA and recall the scenery as being beautiful.
That sounds like fun!
If you're available when I get there, let's plan on it! Oh, this sounds like a fun challenge. Let's find a way to show him it's doable. There will surely be an airplane that would be able to do it.Then we could discuss the possibility of a little grass strip on the farm. It would be short, and the hubby says it's not doable, but of course I disagree. Just need the right airplane.
That sounds like fun!
New Maule Airplane on Visa Unlimited Card ............. $153,000.00
Commercial Tractor for new grass strip .................. $13,500.00
Proving your husband wrong ................................ Priceless
Bill, the way you describe it, I can picture it too.
I can only hope that someone will have a memory like that of my flying over them low and slow somewhere.
Build yourself a RagWing Stork - dirty stall speed = 15. Takeoff/landing roll = 30'.That sounds like fun!
Oh, this sounds like a fun challenge. Let's find a way to show him it's doable. There will surely be an airplane that would be able to do it.
Hey Bob! Where have you been? You've been so quiet!
That would be great! Thanks!
Haven't been to the Ottumwa grass strip. You'll really like the Amana stop. Try not to eat so much that you go over-gross. I *assume* the other strip is Indianola? If so, when you depart there, follow Highway 69 north out of Indianola toward Des Moines. Just under the Class C shelf is IA41. 2300' long grass strip running roughly E-W. That's the grass strip I work out of when I'm working for the crop-duster. Not sure if they'll have the big yellow birds out yet or not. Unfortunately, I won't be down there or I would at least wave as you fly over.
Diana, 2C6 is heaven, it's where I take all my stus for REAL grass work (well, sometimes I use 03 Grass at GBG, home of the Stearman fly-in, it's beautiful. However, it looks like on May 1, I can offer you a HANGAR at 3MY.Adam, here is version 17 of the map. Subject to change, as always.
The route isn't set in stone, especially after I hit Pennsylvania...it's all a blur after that and some of the airports are way points and not necessarily on the route as it's mapped.
The plan is to leave this coming Monday headed for Iowa with the first night at the Amana Colonies and on to Bruce's on Tuesday.
It will be interesting to see how the "before" map compares to the "after" map.
Are you going to be home Wednesday? How about if I head up that way after leaving Bruce's?
Thanks for the additional info on the airports!
Adam, here is version 17 of the map. Subject to change, as always.
The route isn't set in stone, especially after I hit Pennsylvania...it's all a blur after that and some of the airports are way points and not necessarily on the route as it's mapped.
The plan is to leave this coming Monday headed for Iowa with the first night at the Amana Colonies and on to Bruce's on Tuesday.
It will be interesting to see how the "before" map compares to the "after" map.
Thanks Jason.
Rats!
Adam, here is version 17 of the map. Subject to change, as always.
The route isn't set in stone, especially after I hit Pennsylvania...it's all a blur after that and some of the airports are way points and not necessarily on the route as it's mapped.
The plan is to leave this coming Monday headed for Iowa with the first night at the Amana Colonies and on to Bruce's on Tuesday.
It will be interesting to see how the "before" map compares to the "after" map.
Are you going to be home Wednesday? How about if I head up that way after leaving Bruce's?
Great! I'll plan on making it up there on Wednesday afternoon.
