Indiana

I spent most of June and July in Indiana. I first went to the Batesville area and then to Indianapolis for the FMCA Convention. I was busy there helping cousins Jim & Pat with security.
After the convention, we went to Richmond, IN, for another rally. From Richmond, we drove to Dayton, Ohio, to visit the USAF Museum. I had been there years ago, but there is a new wing with Presidential planes which I had never seen.While in Richmond, I also went to a Model-T museum. I got to sit on this 1925 fire truck.
From Indiana, we drove back to Colorado Springs before going to Oklahoma City. We had to do some back-tracking as cousin Jim had to have cataract surgery in Colorado Springs. He claims to can see better now, so I guess I will have to watch myself.
Warmest regards, Gus

Route 66 Museum

I spent the weekend in Oklahoma City with family and friends celebrating my cousin Tom's 80th birthday. We had a great time catching up on things, eating, and on Saturday evening we all went to the Rodeo Opry.
Today, cousins Jim & Pat took me to the Route 66 Museum in Clinton, OK. In the top picture, I was helping the mechanic fix the old truck which was on display, and in the picture to the right, I checked out the old VW Hippie Van. In the other picture, I am wearing my new Route 66 t-shirt.
I will be heading back to Colorado Springs for a couple of weeks before going to Farmington, NM, for a rally.
Since the last post, I have been to Indianapolis, IN, for the FMCA Convention. I will try to write something about that trip soon.
Warmest regards, Gus

Meteor Crater, Arizona

Today I visited the Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona, just East of Flagstaff. This is the site where a meteor struck earth at about 26,000 miles per hour. Since this happened about 50,000 years ago, no people were yet living in the area. The meteor left a crater about 700 feet deep and over 4,000 feet across. It has only been recently that scientists could verify that the crater was caused by a meteor and not a volcanic eruption.
In the top photo, I am sitting next to the largest fragment of the meteor recovered at the site. In the bottom photo, I am at the bottom of the crater near the location U.S. astronauts trained before landing on the moon.

HITS Horse Facility

Yesterday I went to HITS, the Hunter/Jumper horse facility in Thermal, CA. (Thermal is near Indio, Palm Springs, etc.)

There were many participants from across the U.S. as well as a few from other nations. It was fun watching the various competitions.

I also got to meet many nice people, but the most interesting was a family from the Kansas City area. During the conversation, cousin Jim mentioned having been a teacher in Los Alamos, NM, and the people said they knew someone living in Witchita, KS, whose father was an educator in Los Alamoss. They called her and we found out the lady is the daughter of Ed Spence, the man who was responsible for hiring Jim in 1971. It truly is a small world.

I plan to be in the area for another week and then will head to Camp Verde, AZ. After about 10 days there, I will go to Chandler for the FMCA Internatinal Convention and back north to Cottonwood for three weeks. I plan to be in Colorado around the middle of April.

Warmest regards, Gus