Where, oh where to go?

Len and I have been tossing around some ideas of trips to take during this first year of my availability.  Having a small airplane is fun, but we are so weather-reliant that it is hard to make firm plans.  That is one thing about a full-time job - you need to schedule time off.  So once I am "foot-loose-and-fancy-free" we will be more able to hop in the plane and go visiting when the weather cooperates.

So far we have settled on the fact that an across-Canada trip will wait until 2020.  We hope to hit the Oshkosh Air Show on one leg of the trip.  We were there in 2002 and Len has been back once since.  I would like to go again - there is something so special about camping with 10,000 of your flying friends!

For 2019 we will be a little more modest - go visiting the family in Sechelt, Canal Flats and St. Albert.  Maybe we will get as far as Winnipeg where we have good friends.  If not this year, then as part of our Cross-Canada trip next year.

Other than flying, I hope to participate in some musical camps.  Len and I will both go to Mountain Fever Bluegrass Jam Camp at the Flying U Ranch at the end of April.  I want to go back to the Mountainside Chamber Music week in Nelson in July.  And maybe Nimblefingers camp at the end of August....we'll have to see how the money holds out.

There are two elements to our travel - friends and family.  That's really what it is all about.  Visiting old friends, making new ones.  And always throwing in some music.  Len on the banjo, me on either mandolin or stand-up bass.  Too much fun!

So enjoyable to think about the upcoming summer in the midst of January!  Last year at this time we were planning our trip to Iceland and Norway.  Seems that when the snow flies, our imaginations get busy!