How much wood.....

We spent a couple more days at the Airventure show. The weather on Friday was great so they had the same airshow as on Tuesday. The sky was once again filled with planes. The highlight of the day was the concert Friday night by Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band.

http://www.ltdanband.com/

You may have heard of Gary Sinise. He is a famous movie and TV actor. He was in Forrest Gump, as Lt. Dan. Also in Apollo 13 and CSI:NY and many others. Gary is not only a great actor but he is also a pretty good bass guitar player. In 2003 Gary started the band with Kimo Williams. Kimo is a veteran and a guitar player. The main focus of the band is to play for veterans so they play lots of USO shows. It's a big band with a couple guitars, two drummers, 4 singers and a keyboard player. They play music from Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Zac Brown band and many more. It was a good show.

One of Pete's favorite planes is a Swift and he tracked some down at the show. Here is one in very nice shape.

Another interesting machine is from a Massachusetts company, started by some MIT grads. They are building a flying car. It's not a new idea but they have a pretty nice one. Pete once did a thesis paper on flying cars.

There was a B-29 at the show Saturday. That's the type of bomber that dropped the atomic bombs in WWII.

This morning's weather was kind of cloudy with another front hanging around. We decided to go up and have a look. After getting a little bit west the clouds were building more so we landed at the Greater Wisconsin Regional airport (CWA) in Mosinee. The hotel we got is in Wausau right next to a ski hill.

The first question to the waitress during our late lunch was, 'is there a minor league baseball team around here?'. Turns out there isn't but there are the Woodchucks! The Woodchucks are in a summer college league, similar to the Cape Cod League. They had a home game tonight.

Well the Woodchucks were winning 3-0 going into the 9th inning when the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters scored 3 to tie it. The Woodchucks got the bases loaded in the 10th and drove in the winning run.

The players stay with local families for the season. The folks sitting behind us have 2 of the players staying with them. The woman was telling a story about the other morning as she was getting ready to head off to work at 6:15am and she heard the boys in the basement. She felt bad that she made too much noise and woke them up. As they came up stairs, all dressed and ready to go, one of them said to her "didn't you know it is take your player to work day?". The boys were heading off to help out at a baseball clinic for kids. She spoke very highly of the kid, he's a charmer she said.

Another front is supposed to hang around here for a couple days so we may or may not make much progress westward. Jolly, if you are reading this, we are heading your way.