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Hmm...that post went well. I've learned from Neil that blogger can eat posts from time to time, and so since I'm dialing in over rather slow connection, I wanted to make sure that a post would go up at all before writing a long one.
The drive up was uneventful. I got after twilight had fallen; I wish I'd had just another half hour. Oh well, I'm steadily improving, last year it was totally dark. Next year I'll be here in daylight and all will be well.
I also got a camping site much closer this year (the main reason I came two days before the convention officially starts). Last year (my first year at Oshkosh) I had a spot on 15th street in Camp Scholler. This year I'm on 37th and Lindbergh. I measured it with the GPS; this year I'm .4 miles to the east, which means that much less far to walk to the convention.
My spot this year is pretty good, but getting seriously better is probably going to involve more time and expense. You see, Scholler opens its doors at the beginning of July. That's 4 weeks before the convention. You pay for your camp site from when you get the ticket up through the end of the convention. You don't have to physically occupy the space, your sticker and some demarkation of what is your camping spot have to both be there. So lots of people come weeks in advance, buy a camping sticker, and put it and stakes with rope around an empty patch of ground and then go home. They're paying per day to keep it, but when they get here, they have a great spot. Which is an interesting (and expensive) idea, but I don't know that I'd bother for myself. I suppose one way to look at it would be to calculate the cost of a good hotel room in the area and calculate how far ahead of time you could go and spend just that amount of money.
There are planned to be some VIP aircraft arrivals on Monday afternoon. It's been uncharacteristically cool and windy here this evening. I like the cool weather, but I hope the storms don't mess up people arriving.
Well, as long as blogger keeps working, I'll try to keep people informed. Reporting live from the Airventure site, signing off.