EAA AIRSHOW IN OSHKOSH, WI

July 18 to 29, 2012

We left Iowa on July 17th and stopped that night at a campground named "Red Barn Campground" just inside the WI border.  In the morning when I looked out my window I saw this tree:
 

"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree"

While we were at this campground we discovered the front right landing gear on the camper was no longer working properly.  Jim took it off to see how it ticked and discovered it was broken and couldn't put it back on the camper.  So we found a place near Oshkosh that we could order a new landing gear and the camper stayed hooked up to the truck for a week until the part came in.  Thankfully we were on a level spot and didn't have a problem with leveling the camper.

Oshkosh, WI is the home of the largest airshow in the US.  Jim has been coming up to the airshow since 1982 with some buddies.  This year I got to came along for the airshow.  It was very impressive at the sheer number of aircraft that came and went out of the airfield and that parked there for the week for the airshow.  The Saturday night airshow was pretty spectacular also.

I think I mention in another post.....this isn't the first airshow/air museum you will see us at nor will it be the last.  Jim really enjoys aircraft, and misses his airplane terribly.  We sold our airplane back in 1995.  It was either do a major overhaul on it or send Cassie to College...Cassie won!!  And we still love her!!!

Now on to the Airshow......

There were War Birds...

And Fighters....

And Planes all the same color....

And really, really Big airplanes......

And some little ones too.

The formation flying was amazing as well......

Abby just wasn't impressed when the Goodyear blimp would fly over the camper...and she let them know it too.



It kept flying over our camper!!!!

Lots of neat airplanes at the EAA Museum......



We took a ride over to the Sea Plane Base also.....by the time we got there most of the planes had left.

I can understand why Jim likes to go up there.  There are lots of different airplanes and he has made great friendships with the people that go there year after year.

Another life experience that we can check off of our bucket list!!!!!

Till later.......Travel safe and enjoy life!!!

Barb and Jim Denning