After about ten years of not flying, I decided to get current again and then decided to go to Oshkosh. Put out feelers on rec.aviation and AVWEB and got several offers of a ride. Ended up flying with Paul Bertorelli. Got to hang out with a lot of the IFR magazine contributors including going out to Fisk and going up in the tower to watch the arrivals. Figured I didn't stay long enough so the next year I flew a rental skyhawk out there with my wife and stayed the whole week. We haven't missed a show since.

By the time my wife was on the way home from her first Oshkosh, she was ready to take flight lessons. The next show she flew most of the way there with the ink still wet on her private certificate. The next year she flew our Navion in there.