• WheresWallyAMY & JUERGEN’S WEDDING 2023Traveler
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    Lets Go Fly!

    June 19, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    June 19th, Sunday. Let’s Go Fly!

    Charlie and I had breakfast with Loyda and Joven and then several of us went for a run on the lake in the boat, primarily to give Elke, Kirst and Mick’s daughter (and Juerg’s granddaughter) a final boat ride. To everyone’s surprise she caught a very good sized fish on her own pink fishing rod.

    Kirst, Mick and Elka departed for Milwaukee, bound for New York and shortly thereafter Melbourne, soon to be their new home after Kirst serving for the Australian Government at the United Nations for the past 4 years.

    Juergs took Charlie and myself for a fly in his home built aircraft that he has been constructing for the last 15 years plus. It’s a Glassair Sportsman, tail drager. about the size of a Cessna 172, but is registered in the Experimental category. Beautiful aircraft, fabulous colour scheme and very sophisticated avionics systems. It is capable of auto landing, amazing. We did a flight of about 25 minutes from Oshkosh out over the lakes and overflew their house. Great to see it all from the air.

    After closing the hanger doors we went to the EAA aviation museum at Oshkosh airport. It is an amazing display of the history of aviation. From replicas of the Wright Brothers Flyer and Bleriot’s cross English Channel aircraft thru to Paul Allen’s Space Ship One and Dick and Burt Rutan’s Voyager. The whole spectrum of the history of aviation in fact. We spent about an hour there but could have spent the best part of a day. Personally, hopefully I will be back in July 2024 for the Oshkosh air show which goes for a week, when about 10,000 or more private aircraft fly in for for the biggest week in aviation globally. Oshkosh is the busiest airport in the world for that week!

    Back home for a LLD - a little lie down. Then out onto the lake for sundowners, back to Chez Otte and Pirie Pirie Prawns and salad, dining out poolside on a perfect evening. Weather has been amazing. No wind to speak of, just light breezes, not a cloud seen yet, and temperatures in the upper 20’s and cool evenings. Perfect. And the lakeside so green.    Read more