Traveling Man

By lex, on September 8th, 2011

So: Your correspondent is nigh out the door and on his way to Ventura County, for to continue his ground training culminating in getting that bugger actually airborne, hopefully. With a full bag o’ gas and the ejection seat pins removed this time.

Which means that he will not be in Reno for Tailhook 2011 this weekend, more’s the pity this being the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation ‘Hook and potentially epic, but the needs of the company come first. To any those of you that are going, have fun, be safe, fly the ball to touchdown, keep your hands off the helo pilots.

Trust me on that last one.*

And: For the rest of you, talk amongst yourselves. You will find the liquor locker padlocked and wrapped in chains, so BYOB, and clean up afterward for you dinna want the Hobbit riding your assets.

Trust me on that last one.

Update: Tried to get out early to avoid the LA County traffic gridlock, about which I have heard much but experienced little. Until today.

Never again.

It simply beggars description.

* 11-02-2018 Link Gone; no replacements found – Ed.

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