Well written, Mike.
On 9/6/2015 6:49 AM, Mike Stirewalt via KRnet wrote:
> Thank you John and wife for inviting everyone to such a truly lovely
> place. It's all so beautiful up there I'd forgotten what it's like. It
> was a wonderful treat to experience such lush vegetation. Abundant
> moisture with no feeling of humidity like we'd get in the South (southern
> United States). And no "palmetto" bugs. You outdid yourselves with
> organization and even though I didn't stay for the whole thing, I thank
> you sincerely.
>
> Coming back home I was expecting to get a little bit back of what I gave
> up in speed when fighting mild headwinds going north. Nope. No tailwind
> at all leaving MMV and once I got to Mt. Shasta started getting headwinds
> which just got worse the further south I got. By the time I got to
> Bakersfield the GPS was showing 112 MPH. My still-air cruise is 149
> average. Crossing the LA Basin it felt like I was standing still, and I
> practically was. I couldn't drop down to a lower altitude since it was
> night time and there are some serious mountains around LA. It was a
> beautiful trip though. These graceful little aircraft can do anything
> the fancy ones do . . . and do it a lot cheaper.
>
> I stopped in Merced for fuel and arrived home at 4 in the morning. I
> hung around Merced (landed there at 11 PM) because in that dreadful
> little Central Valley grape town was the best live raggae I've heard
> since I can't remember when. I opened the canopy expecting the silence
> that greeted me when I landed there going up. Totally deserted.
> Facilities consist of a gas pump and a Porta Potty. Yet this time there
> was this amazing music . . . so I followed my ears over to the fence.
> Joining the airport was an open air club with fires going and a band from
> Sacramento (I learned) called Rege Lark. Wow. I don't listen to
> anything anymore, just appreciate silence, but this took me back a couple
> decades to a time when the sounds of Jamaica was in my bones. And to
> hear it in such an unlikely environment!
>
> What a great trip. I guess it's worth keeping my plane just to do things
> like this once a year.
>
> Mike
> KSEE
>
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