{"id":3693,"date":"2014-07-27T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T02:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2014-07-29T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T03:33:16","slug":"trip-to-oshkosh-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Oshkosh – Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, July 25, 2014<\/p>\n

I put on a motion sickness patch, that Uncle Stacy had prescribed, behind my ear before getting in bed.\u00a0 Sleepiness is a side effect, but I kept waking up a lot.\u00a0 I did sleep a lot in the plane later in day, but that may have been because we didn\u2019t sleep very long that night.\u00a0 Aunt Marisol made us quite the breakfast, and then we loaded up everything and drove to Leesburg Airport.\u00a0 We swapped the car for the Piper Cherokee in the hangar, fueled up, and then were on our way.\u00a0 We were a little concerned about the little Cherokee being able to take off with the three of us, our bags, and a full fuel load on a super hot day, but it rotated like a champ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2957\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Uncle Stacy and Berck take turns with one person flying and the other working the radio and navigating.\u00a0 I sit in the back, and if I\u2019m behind Berck\u2019s seat, I can put my legs down in front of me \u2026 kinda.\u00a0 If I\u2019m behind Uncle Stacy, I have to curl them up in the seat next to me.\u00a0 The Cherokee supposedly has 4 seats, but you can probably only fit four very small, skinny people and no luggage and still be under gross weight.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2960\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The original plan had been to do a fuel stop in Montgomery, but the weather there was bad.\u00a0 So we decided to stop at LaGrange instead.\u00a0 We had to fly dodging clouds and finding holes to descend down to the airport.\u00a0 Atlanta Center had been complaining that our transponder wasn\u2019t showing our correct altitude, so we asked at the FBO if the shop there could take a look at it, because we weren\u2019t going to be able to fly into the relatively busy Nashville airport without it.\u00a0 The mechanics told us they didn\u2019t have the correct equipment to test the transponder, and we couldn\u2019t fly to Atlanta to get it fixed because we couldn\u2019t fly into Atlanta airspace without it.\u00a0 \u201cBut,\u201d one of the mechanics said, \u201cThere\u2019s a guy in Columbus, which is only 30 miles away, who should be able to.\u201d\u00a0 He called up the guy and told him we were coming.\u00a0 \u201cGo to Stark Aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we got back in the plane and flew a few minutes in the wrong direction and landed at Columbus. An advantage of being in Columbus was that we could stay with friends of mine (that\u2019s where I grew up) if the fix was going to take too long. The guy at Stark dropped everything and got right to work on our plane.\u00a0 We went into the air conditioned lobby to wait.\u00a0 Suddenly, Berck said, \u201cI think this is the guy on the RV forums who\u2019s always giving people really helpful advice\u2026 I bet it\u2019s him!\u201d He went back out to the hangar.\u00a0 Sure enough. This guy is possibly the best avionics mechanic in the country, and we had just stumbled into his shop!\u00a0 Berck watched him do his thing.\u00a0 Apparently, the transponder\u2019s pins had bent, so he just bent them all back into the correct orientation, and it worked great!\u00a0 He showed Berck everything, which is nice, because Berck is going to be mounting avionics into the plane we\u2019re building before long.\u00a0 And he only charged us $95.<\/p>\n

As nice as it would have been to see some friends in Columbus, if we\u2019d gotten stuck there, The plan was to have dinner with Sydney in Nashville.<\/p>\n

By now it was mid afternoon, though, and the thunderstorms were building.\u00a0 We took off from Columbus just before it started raining, and then with the help of Columbus tower who called us to tell us we were heading straight into a cell, dodged thunderstorms in a roundabout route to Nashville.\u00a0 We also got a warning call from Center saying we were on a path to bust some restricted airspace containing \u201clive firing and fighter jets.\u201d<\/p>\n

We flew really high to try to get cooler, all the way to 10,000 feet.\u00a0 It was nice and cool up there.\u00a0 I read my book and fell asleep again.\u00a0 It was also a really smooth flight, no turbulence, and I had my ginger ale and ginger snaps and didn\u2019t feel any nausea whatsoever.<\/p>\n

When we left Columbus, the weather over Nashville was bad, but by the time we got there it was fine.\u00a0 The FBO gave us a ride off the ramp in a golf cart and told us they\u2019d fill our tanks in the morning so we\u2019d get the weekend fuel rate, a whole dollar a gallon off the regular price.\u00a0 We called Sydney to come pick us up.\u00a0 We dropped our stuff off at her house and then her boyfriend Shawn drove us, even though we could have walked, to Two Ten Jack (I requested it because of the mosquitos, and it was dusk).\u00a0 Somehow, even though there was a line, we got seated immediately.\u00a0 We shared all the sushi, yakatori, dumplings, etc.,\u00a0 Everything was very good.\u00a0 Then Berck wanted to stop by Bolton\u2019s Hot Chicken, but unfortunately, the person in front of him had just placed an enormous order.\u00a0 The hot chicken was still as delicious and spicy as ever.\u00a0 Uncle Stacy had a strip, which he regretted the next day.\u00a0 Then he went to bed while Sydney tried to teach us how to play Dominion (a beardless board game), while we drank beer and tried to get our lips to stop burning.<\/p>\n

Here are pictures of Sydney’s pets:<\/p>\n

Killer:<\/p>\n

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Dixie<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3020\"<\/a> \"IMG_3054\"<\/a> \"IMG_3049\"<\/a> \"IMG_3044\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And even Jorge<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3035\"<\/a>…who is rubbing against my legs with his head pressed against the ground.<\/p>\n

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