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On October 31, a plane that I'd seen in listed in August for a reasonable price, and then listed again in early October at a lower price, got listed again at an absurdly low price. It was exactly the kind of airplane that I'd been sort of vaguely looking for, with all the features that I required, with almost all of the secondary things hathat I sort of wanted, at a price that I couldn't ignore any more.
That evening as soon as I was off of work, I called the owner and talked to him about coming down and seeing it. He said that two other people had also called about it (which was later confirmed). I decided I really ought to go down right away and look at it as a result, so we set up that I would drive down that Sunday and meet him to look at the airplane and fly it that Sunday afternoon. This post shows some pictures from that trip.
The drive from where I live in Kentucky to owner's (now seller's) place in South Carolina was 411 miles, according to mapquest, just about 7 hours. I drove down starting early Sunday morning and met him at 2pm. I was there probably 4 hours or a little more, and then headed back that evening. I grabbed a hotel that night and then drove the rest of the way back Monday morning (I had specific on-call duty at work on Monday afternoon).
Here's plushie
@wilw at the Clinch Mountain
overlook in Tennessee, on the way south.
Just south of Clinch mountain, I drove by the city of Morristown.
Here's the turn-off of 25E into the town of Morristown where I turned
every time I went to the Morristown airport when I was taking flyin
lessons in 2006 and 2007.
While I'm a mid-westerner at heart, I have to admit Appalachia and the
south have some pretty driving vistas too.
The next post will be about the next trip that I took down to Georgia to have the plane inspected.