First leg to Dumas, TX (DUX) was an absolute joy. Sunny skies and tailwinds with just some light chop. Great fuel stop; nice lounge, easy fill up, clean bathrooms, weather computer, and pilot's lounge for a quick lunch. Headed up the east side of Colorado and hit some pretty good turbulence for a few hours. No turbulence airmet when we left in the morning, but low and behold, there was one there when we landed. Ugh.
We were pointed to our home in the grass for the weekend, and we proceeded to pound the tie-down stakes about half way into the ground. Talk about some dry, hard, packed dirt. If you have some rain to spare, send it to Hot Springs, SD. Tightly run ship by Larry and Clint's crew got us checked in and on a bus to the hotel. I had to think about the last time I was on a school bus that long. Scott decided it must have been to go get on some inner tubes to float down the Guadalupe River with some friends and a cooler of ....
Enough time worked into the schedule by the coordinator for a nap and shower at the hotel and off to dinner with 80 of your closest friends you've never met before. OK, so maybe you had met 5 of the people before.
A few pics for the day:
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Early morning tomorrow to go see some the local stops of Mammoth Site and Wind Cave.
The check has already been made out to "you won't regret it".