Today we did homeschool here at Cabela’s.  Towards evening we used the dump station here at Cabela’s, then drove north.  We ran into some huge clouds on the road:

We continued north to overnight at Merrymeeting Field, a grass airstrip in Bowdoinham, Maine.  Mark, the field owner, has generously invited us to stay for a couple nights.  I’m looking forward to getting in a few flights before continuing north!

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.

Today we spent the day with Uncle Dennis and Grandma DiAnn, then said our goodbyes and drove south to Verona, Wisconsin.  We received permission from the airport manager to overnight here through Sunday morning.  The weather is too stormy to fly today, but hopefully on Sunday it will be better.

Here’s the view from the intersection of the two runways, looking west.  The RV is parked next to the hangar building on the right:

Good Shabbos from the Verona Airport!  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.

This morning we said goodbye to the O family in Denver, where we’ve been parked since Shavuos.  It’s been a lot of fun catching up, as we haven’t been here since 2011:

  The kids will miss the family dog, Radar:

It was a tight fit getting out of the driveway:

We drove east to the Snowflake PPG flying site, where we stayed a few nights before Shavuos.  We dropped off the RV and drove just a few miles down the road to the Rocky Mountain Airshow.  The first performance was by local PPG pilots Nathan and Chris:

Several vintage warbirds flew by, including this NA-50:

And this T-6:

Doug Jardine, flying his Sbach 342:

Matt Younkin, performing impressive maneuvers in his Twin Beech passenger plane:

The Air Force Honor Guard did a demonstration:

The highlight of the snow was the USAF Thunderbirds, flying the F-16 Falcon:

The Calypso maneuver:

Crossover Break maneuver:

Delta Wing formation:

Delta Burst maneuver:

Bomb Burst maneuver:

At the bottom of the Bomb Burst, all four planes cross each other’s paths at 90 degree angles:

The afternoon program had Bob Carlton flying his Subsonix:

We saw several flybys by this World War II era B-25 Mitchell.  Named “Maid in the Shade”, it is one of only a few dozen still flying:

Flyby with bomb bay doors open:

Beech Staggerwing:

The last performer we saw was Don Nelson flying his Sukhoi 26:

Traffic in and out of the airshow was considerable, but it was worth the wait.  We’ve been trying to get the kids to an airshow since the beginning of the trip, so I’m glad we were finally able to do it.