This morning’s flight 140 was fairly turbulent, so I didn’t get to play around down low for fear of a “negative interaction with terrain”, as they say:

I did overfly the historic J. Crookston Ranch:

Back at the RV, I encountered this invasive Ten-Lined June Beetle.  I’ve never seen antennae with lamellate plates:

Weather was good today, so I launched flight 139 out to Boar’s Tusk.  First flight in Wyoming, and highest altitude launch to date (6800’):

Sunset was nice:

It’s been very hot here near Badlands National Park, but I’ve lingered so I can fly here.  This morning, the weather was finally favorable, so I launched flight 138, my first in South Dakota, and my first with my new Apco Hybrid 22:

Greetings, groundlings:

Looking down at my new photographer friend:

I packed up and drove west, visiting Wall Drug.  I was last here in the 90s.  It’s still a gigantic, eclectic mess of a tourist trap:

Unfortunately, the visitor center was closed for repairs:

I next visited the South Dakota Air and Space Museum:

I bought some groceries in Rapid City, then continued west into Wyoming:

I’m dispersed camping on the banks of Sand Creek:

I went for a run:

Good Shabbos from near Beulah, Wyoming!  See the trip map for today’s drive.

This morning I met fellow pilot Shane for a flight.  There was no wind and the grass was wet, and my wing, uncooperative under the best of circumstances, was impossible to get off the ground.  After breaking a prop in a launch attempt, Shane let me try his APCO Hybrid wing.  It was much more accommodating, and I had a nice Flight 137, my first in Indiana:

The field where I flew was a few hundred yards from the RV Hall of Fame, which surprisingly has so far eluded us:

View from the balcony:

The RV archives:

The hall of fame:

So much good stuff here:

A model of the proposed SkyeRise Terrace:

If you know, you know:

The world’s first travel trailer, the 1913 “Earl”, towed there by a Ford Model “T”:

1954 Spartan Imperial Mansion:

1937 Hunt Housecar:

Model of an RV assembly Plant:

No shortage of RV-themed material in the gift shop:

I then continued east into Ohio to overnight at Galion Municipal Airport in hopes of a flight tomorrow morning:

See the trip map for today’s drive.