My wife Kelly and myself drove 13 hours to the Gathering of Corsairs in Indiana for Albany, NY. We were going to leave Friday night and show up in the morning for the show because Kelly had to work that Friday. Thursday she found out she could take it off so we left in the morning. The trip was pretty low key. Got some pictures of the F-84C along the highway in PA.
The next morning we get up bright and early so that we can be first in line when the gates open. When we arrived know one was there. I like to get there at lest 1 hour before the gates open. Indiana doesn’t do the Day light savings time thing; so we were about two and half hours early. Kelly was not a happy camper! Like I did that on purpose. So we drove out to get in line. We visited with others who did the same thing, One car load of people drove up from Missouri. The show was great, 7 Corsairs showed up, I hoped for more BUT there were 7 Corsairs. We stayed until dark taking pictures and just hanging out after all the Non-junkies left.
The next morning we got up early to drive to the Air Force museum. I figured we’d spent 2-3 hours there and take off for the 9-10 hour drive home. Was I wrong! 6 hours later we left. Kelly was about died and had long sense OD’d on looking at a/c. We drove in short shifts trying to stay wake as we drove, trying to sleep when we weren’t. I think we arrived home at 3 or 4 am. We’d been up for almost 24 hours.
Then there was the Yankee Air Force show in 2003. That was also fun, but only 10 hours. We stopped at Niagara Falls, the Air museum there; then through Canada to Willow Run. What a great show that was. They had a P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, F6FF4U-5, F4U-1A, 4-B-17G. On the way home we stopped at the Canadian warplane Heritage. Took the tour. Then stopped at Knapp Vineyard for a tasting and dinner. Then drove the rest of the way home.
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