Tag Archives for " Wisconsin "

Door County Weekend – Part 3

Sunday was forecast to be a rainy day so we took our time getting going in the morning. As it turned out, the rain and storms that hit so much of Wisconsin and Illinois that day missed us completely and is was another beautiful, mostly sunny day with temperatures in the seventies. We couldn’t have […]

Continue reading

Door County Weekend – Part 2

Saturday morning we had breakfast at the hotel then got back in the car for more driving. The plan was to drive up the eastern (Lake Michigan) side of the peninsula all the way to the tip then come back down the Green Bay side arriving in Fish Creek about 5 PM. We had reservations […]

Continue reading

Door County Weekend – Part 1

Georgia’s constant battles with health issues have kept us close to home lately. The Reglan that caused her Parkinsonism last year was effective at controlling her gastroparesis and, now that she can no longer take it, that condition is back. She was hospitalized in late March and again in April. With no other drugs available […]

Continue reading

Mom Flys!

In previous posts I hinted at an aviation adventure that I was planning and on Friday I finally pulled it off. Here is the full story. Up to Friday, I had not flown since July of 2009 so I need a flight review and some CFI coaching too. Rather than just go out to fly […]

Continue reading

EAA AirVenture Museum

This past week end, Georgia and I made a trip to Oshkosh to visit the EAA AirVenture Museum. We left home about 9AM on Saturday and pulled into the museum parking lot right at noon.The weather was good, the museum was uncrowded and we had the whole afternoon to explore the exhibits. We used Georgia’s […]

Continue reading

Milwaukee Air & Water Show Fundraiser

If you are in the Milwaukee area, please consider attending this event to help support next year’s Air & Water Show.

Continue reading

AirVenture 2009 Video

Here is a wonderful video from AirVenture 2009 that is making a big splash on YouTube and beyond. I don’t know the young man who created it but he did a great job.

Continue reading

AirVenture 2009 – Part 2

After coffee and donuts at the Aces Cafe, Saturday morning found us back at the Forums Plaza.  I chose the Safe Single Pilot IFR presentation for this session.  Now that I have started on my instrument rating, this is of special interest to me.  I picked up some good tips from Doug Stewart’s talk. We […]

Continue reading

AirVenture 2009 – Part 1

Georgia and I left for Oshkosh early Friday morning and got to Whittman Field about 9AM.  Just in time to get our wrist bands and make it over to Forums Plaza for Rod Machado’s 10 o’clock presentation.  So, we got to start off the show with a good laugh. After watching Rod, we walked down […]

Continue reading

Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airshow

On Friday, Georgia and I were looking for a last minute weekend escape and decided to drive up to the Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airshow. We made a reservation at the Ho-Chunk Hotel, which is adjacent to the airport, for Friday night but they were booked up for Saturday. The Wisconsin Dells area has plenty of hotels […]

Continue reading
>