Monday May 20 - Homecoming

Well, I am sitting in my favorite chair after a good home cooked meal and just relaxing.

There is no place like home.

We started the day at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH. What an awesome place. There were 3 large hangers that were divided into sections of WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korean and Vietnam. Each display had the important aircraft of the era. Some of these airplanes I have only seen picture of until today. We started at 9:00 and had to leave to be at the airport at 2:00 so we hustled thru the whole thing and saw most everything. It is a place I would love revisit and spend a few days.

We departed Dayton (Greene County Airport) and headed for Monroe Co TN (1:56  flying time) where gas was at the amazing price of $5.17/gallon. We filled up and blasted off for Mountain Airpark at 5:30 which would have put us home at 6:00 as the flying time was 27:00 minutes. One problem. There was a thunderstorm between us and home so we had to divert west to Lumpkin Co (Wimpy Airport) then turn east to go around the cell. We landed about 6:15 and had many folks come out to welcome us.

Thanks to everyone for turning out.

We had a great trip, made many new friends and enjoyed flying with a great group of guys. Thanks to the Skydogs for making this another memorable trip.

We'll post a wrap-up video asap...