I just wanted to put up a quick post to thank John, Lance, and everyone else I met in Reno at the hangar on Sunday (I'm TERRIBLE with names...sorry). I can't thank you guys enough for letting me show up, watch, talk, and hang out. It made my overnight in Reno a blast. It was my first time being around work on a GA aircraft. I learned so much and feel a lot more confident going forward as I look at airplanes and decide on one. Yeah, it was scarey to see that C182 all opened up and watch all the worms escape from the can...but it didn't scare me one bit. It got me interested even more. I am afraid I got the plane-bug bad.

Thanks again for meeting up, sharing some sea-stories, and just being great folks. I enjoyed the hell out of it y'all! I'll know in an hour if I got time off to go to Sun-n-Fun. If so, I'm gonna sit in every aircraft I can, take notes, and see if I can fly em. And like we talked about, I realize that I need to have an honest sit-down with myself and decide just what it is I want to do with a plane...define my mission and capability set. Then I can get down to business. See you in Reno again! or maybe see you in Texas or wherever life takes me.

Good luck,
And if you make it to Sun-N-Fun, look for a Maule N107JB in General Aircraft Camping. That will be me.

John,
Damn, I am going to be down in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I launch on 26 April for a 16 day kayaking / rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. I love to kayak and the Grand Canyon is the best river trip in the world. This is trip #6 for me. Maybe we can meet up after that sometime?