Colorado To Oshkosh
2003
 

Roy spent a couple days in Denver at relatives.  We met at Limon airport (about 60 miles from Meadow Lake) and flew as a flight of two to Oshkosh.  Roy was the "flight leader" since he has an autopilot.  We spent the night in Baraboo, Wisconsin, about 60 miles from Oshkosh since we thought it would be a lot less crowded to fly in to Oshkosh early the next morning.  We ate at an indian casino located on the airport grounds.

Amy is co-coordinator of our EAA chapter's Young Eagles program so she went to a forum on Young Eagles.  Here is the national program chairman, Chuck Yeager.

I didn't get Dad's email until we got back but I figured you'd want a picture.  Looks like they spelled everything right!  We went through the museum (which is probably 3x larger than when we were last there) and your other plaque is still on the wall.

The above plaque is at Amy's feet.   Facing the other direction is the Mueseum and Pioneer field.

Friday night we went to Theater-in-the-Woods.  The three guys on the right are astronauts.  The leftmost astronaut is Neil Armstrong.  During the talk they had a live uplink with the International Space Station and talked to one of the astronauts in space.

And here we are the last morning before we left.   Note the very flimsy and tiny tent behind the right wing.  The first night we were there they drove around the rows with a bullhorn announcing that there was a strong thunderstorm approaching and to be prepared.  Around 10pm a thunderstorm went directly over the field, very windy, very hard rain, lots of lightening.  But the plane didn't flip over, no other plane flipped over on us, and the tent did well - it stayed dry inside.  The next night there was a milder thunderstorm with similar results.  And Friday night we actually stayed dry.