June 30th, three days in one ...

Vicky's husband Dan invited me for a 10 minute flight in their Arctic Tern (according to Vicky: "Even better than a Cub') to their cabin. It was amazing: once up in the air I saw a vast wild country, as far as the eyes reached. In Holland they try to revert cultured land to wilderness, here I saw just wilderness, trees, streams, rivers, with small spots of human resources. We landed at a strip near the cabin. We walked and drove around. The pictures we took say more than I can reproduce in words. Flabbergasting ...
At  11.30 we landed back near the house. I made some phonecalls and drove to Vicky's shop to have lunch.

Chuck Thomas, also a SuperCub.org member, joined us to pick me up and show me the Fairbanks Aviation Museum. He is the author of 'Wings over Wilderness', adventures of Bush pilot Paul Shanahan.
And lucky me: had the honor to receive a copy from Chuck himself, with autograph. The Aviation Museum is really nice to see. Of course the Yellow Cub has a prominent place in it. There after Chuck showed me more interesting aviation places near the airport; we saw many a special plane.
Then I was brought back to Tamarack Pilot Shop. Might see each again tomorrow at the 10 o'clock Al' coffee hour, at the pilotshop. Thanks Chuck, for showing me around!

At 17.30 Dan came in to pick me up for the second time. I was invited to take place in a beautiful green 1955 Chevrolet. This had belonged to his father, who died last March, and we were going to pick up Dan's step-mother and join the 'Vernon L.Nash Antique AutoClub of Fairbanks'. The grand lady wished to sit in the back and wave queenly to admiring passers bye. I had all the room in the world in the right front seat, while Dan enjoyed driving the car. Three hours later we were back in the shop, ate a cold diner. I drove back to the house, while Dan flew the Tern back. What a day ...