AirVenture 2017 - Life in Homebuilt Camping
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| My RV-7 proudly displaying its 1,000 hour placard. Actually, I'm somewhere around 1,200 hours now in eight years of operation. Hard to believe. |
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Bruce and Ray enjoying the good life in HBC.
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Homebuilder Headquarters. They had free donuts Wednesday morning, I think. Pretty good donuts! Got to meet and talk with Paul Dye, ex-NASA Flight Director, current Kitplanes editor-in-chief and multiple RV builder, briefly.
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| The three amigos: Bruce, John and Ray happy to be at the Show. It was John's first time at AirVenture. |
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| We hit the Yellow Ball a couple of times for dinner and after dinner cocktails. |
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We were looking forward to going to Kodiak Jack's for steaks one night, only to discover to our dismay that it had closed! Mike B. had been raving about the
Black Otter and its prime rib, so we went there instead. It was a long drive, and everyone was hungary, so I was under a lot of pressure. Things got pretty tense. The
Black Otter had better be good or I don't know what would have happened, but it wouldn't have been funny. |
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Fortunately for moi, it was great. Mike B., you were not wrong, my friend, you were not wrong.
Here is my prime rib before I devoured it. It was as good as I've had for many, many years.
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| Our little corner of homebuilt camping. Actually, it was a very nice spot. We even had our own Shower trailer and charging station. I never had to wait for a shower the entire AirVenture. |
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| This is the new pavilion in homebuilders camping. It was a good hike from where our planes were so I only went over to it once, just to check it out. |
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| They even had these two charging stations. |
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Plus gas grills you could use. Nice.
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| Packing up Saturday morning. Always a sad time. |
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