Month: July 2010

Sloshkosh Start

Some of my friends and I arrived in Oshkosh last night…unfortunately the grounds at the airport are soggy from 10 inches of rain last week, so we’ve been relegated to a hard parking lot a few miles north of the airfield…along with a bunch of other people.  I’m being told there are about 5 more of these lots that EAA is setting up until the grounds dry out…along with a couple hundred parked on the road near the entrance to the camping area at the airport.  Good times.

Here are a couple of pictures…the last one is our rig for the week, along with a map of where we’re at (hopefully temporarily).

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Map picture

RVs Up the Coast of California

Okay…there should be a lot more coming on this, but I wanted to at least post a few of the pictures.  In late June an early July of this year the Cederstroms and the Williams families headed out to California, rented a couple of RVs, and headed up the central coast and back.  It was a blast!

We did get one dive in at Monterey…but it was nothing to write home about.  I got to use my drysuit in the ocean for the first time, but that was the highlight of the dive…and no video or photos from that one.  More on that later.

Like I said, I’ll get some more details here at some point when things get a little less crazy and travelling has slowed down, but here are some of the pictures from the trip.  I have more, of course, and Rachel took tons as well, so at some point maybe we have to do some pic swapping.  Enjoy.

Headed to Oshkosh!

Many of you know that I am an aviator, a pilot…and I take having fun flying very seriously. Smile  I am also a podcaster and have a couple of shows about aviation that I host and produce.  Part of what I do as both an aviator and podcaster is make an annual pilgrimage to the Mecca of general aviation, EAA’s Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  This show is indescribable, so I won’t really try.  I will, however, say that it’s amazing!  The best part, of course, is meeting all of my old friends and making new ones every year.  Well, that time has come again…and in about a day and a half I’ll be heading up to Osh for a week of airplanes, airshows, interviews, fun, hanging out, rain, heat, humidity, camping…and an all around good time.

I do official coverage of some of the show on my two aviation websites, StudentPilotCast.com and pilotcast.com, but I may chronicle some of the adventures here through pictures, video, and writing…but it all depends on how much time I have (which is usually not very much).  I may at least do some cross posting and get some of it here even if I post it on one of my show sites as well.

For some of the information and coverage that I’ve done at past Airventure, you can see some of it here.  I’m getting excited…as usual, it’s gonna be great!