Reklaw Fly In

The airplane and weather gods were on Roger's side and he was able to take the Cub to the fly in at the Flying M Ranch in Reklaw, Texas this past week-end. After ten years of restoration and these past 2 long weeks fixing an oil leak, he is finally able to play with it!
The trip wasn't without hassles. Since I still don't feel comfortable driving the motorhome after my fall - we drove the motorhome to Taylor, Tx on Wednesday night and then on to Reklaw on Thursday morning. Then we jumped in the car, drove back to Austin, and spent the night with Carlos & Megan. On Friday morning, we got up early, drove to San Antonio, hopped in the Cub (well, I didn't exactly "hop" in but I made it!)and flew the airplane to Reklaw. About a 2.5 hour flight. A beautiful, sunny day and a smooth flight - what a treat! Megan & Carlos and our friends Ray & Cindy joined us Friday night and we had such a fun day on Saturday! Another gorgeous day allowed over 500 airplanes of all shapes and sizes to fly in for the 25th anniversary of the event. Ray, Carlos & Megan flew around the area with Roger but the sky is pretty crowded, lots of radio "chatter" and a bit chaotic for the pilot! The funniest thing was when Roger & Ray got in the plane for the first flight of the day, were all ready to start the engine, whoops where's the key? Megan had to run back to the motorhome to get it! We had fun just sitting along the runway and watching planes take off, land and do "fly bys." We were awakened at 6:30am on Sunday morning with a particularly loud plane taking off and then coming back for a "fly by" - the airport alarm clock! Roger flew the Cub home - head winds turned it into a 3.5 hour flight. Megan drove the motorhome with me and Carlos drove their car. Then Roger drove to Austin to pick me and our house up! Hopefully, next year will be a little less convoluted getting us all there and back! It is pouring down rain today - we wedged a great week-end between the storms! We are truly blessed!
This week is "recuperation" week for Roger - nothing to fix!
Brag Time:
Congratulations to Carlos who just got a BIG promotion at Dell. He has always been BIG in our book!